carte

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bill of fare; a menu.
  2. Alternative form of quarte. alt-of,alternative,countable,uncountable
  3. A visiting card. dated
    — "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, were unknown.
  4. A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person). historical
    — 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.
  5. A playing card. Scotland,dated
    — 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.

词形变化

cartes plural cartes plural

词源

Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. Doublet of card and chart.
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