ecarte
/e.kʌɹˈte/ noun
- noun A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
- noun A card game in which one can discard certain cards from one's hand and replace them with cards from the deck.
Etymology
From French écarté.
Borrowed from French écarté (“discarded”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
Etymology [F., prop. fr. écarter to reject, discard.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ecarte”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details