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‖ écarté|ekarte|
[F. écarté, écarter to discard, to throw out cards.]
1. A game of cards for two persons, in playing which the cards from 2 to 6 are excluded. One feature is that a player may ask leave to discard, or throw out certain cards from his hand, and replace them with fresh ones from the pack. Also attrib.
1824(title) A Treatise on the Game of Écarté, as played in the first circles of London and Paris. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxv, She watched over him kindly at Écarté of a night. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 355 M. Cavaignac threw on an écarté-table in the Louvre a packet of cartridges. 1878‘Cavendish’ [Hy. Jones] Ecarté 21 The game of écarté in some of its features, namely the discard (from which its name is derived) and the score for the king, is of modern origin.
2. Ballet. (See quot. 1957.)
1922Beaumont & Idzikowski Man. Theory & Pract. Class. Theatr. Dancing i. 29 (caption) Position of the body in the direction of the body termed écarté. 1957G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 109 Écarté,..a position of the body, oblique to the audience, in which the arm and the leg, on the ground or raised nearest to the audience, are extended on the same vertical and diagonal plane as the rest of the body. 1960J. Lawson Classical Ballet vi. 148 This écarté position for the commencement of a turn is extremely important when the dancer has to circle the stage. |