/kɑː(ɹ)t/
OriginBorrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. Doublet of card and chart.
- A bill of fare; a menu.
- datedA visiting card.
“"He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is." Now this was in the early days of cartes, and the soft ivory finish and delicate tinting of the cartes that now are taken, ”
- historicalA carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
“Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.”
- Scotland, datedA playing card.
“We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.”
“He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.”
Formscartes(plural) · Cartes(plural)