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‖ carte blanche|kart blɑ̃ːʃ|
Also 8 chart blanch, charte blanche.
[Fr. (formerly charte blanche): = blank paper.]
1. A blank paper given to any one on which to write his own conditions.
1707Ld. Raby in Hearne Collect. (1886) II. 43 Who sent Chart Blanch to make a Peace. 1712Addison Spect. No. 299 ⁋2, I threw her a Charte Blanche, as our News Papers call it, desiring her to write upon it her own Terms. 1864Kirk Chas. Bold II. iii. ii. 154 Louis..returned a carte blanche which was filled up with the government of Guienne and a long list of inferior posts and emoluments.
b. lit. Blank paper.
1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 285, I cannot conceive how any man can..consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
2. Hence fig. Full discretionary power granted.
1766Chesterfield Lett. cccc. (1792) IV. 235 Mr. Pitt, who had carte blanche given him, named every one of them. 1809Windham Let. in Speeches Parl. (1812) I. 114 Unless I can have carte blanche as to my military plans. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 185, I may venture to assume carte blanche in arguing the impossibility of basilican revival. 1879Lond. Soc. Christm. No. 47/1 Our good easy vicar gave me carte blanche to use this organ.
3. Piquet. A hand containing no picture-cards. (The French is avoir cartes blanches to have blank cards; the earlier Eng. was blank or blanche.)
[1651Royal Game Picquet 6 If he..find that he hath never a Coat Card in his hand, he saies..I have a Blanche. 1659Shuffling, Cutting, & Deal. 7, I am blanck. 1676Cotton Compl. Gamester vi. 88 (Picket) He that hath a Blank..his Blank shall hinder the other Picy..and Repicy.] 1820Hoyle's Games Impr. 112 Carte Blanche, means a hand without a court card in the twelve dealt, which counts for ten. 1850Bohn Handbk. Games 200. 1882 Laws of Piquet Law xviii, Carte blanche..scores first, and consequently saves a pique or a repique. |