écartén.

/ɛkartɛ/

Etymology: < French 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 attributive.

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écarté1824

1824 (title) A Treatise on the Game of Écarté, as played in the first circles of London and Paris.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxv. 212 She watched over him kindly at écarté of a night.

1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 355 M. Cavaignac threw on an écarté-table in the Louvre a packet of cartridges.

1878 ‘Cavendish’ Laws of 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.)

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society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > movements > pose

attitude1721

arabesque1828

pose1845

écarté1922

fish dive1943

1922 C. W. Beaumont & S. Idzikowski Man. Theory & Pract. Class. Theatr. Dancing i. 29 (caption) Position of the body in the direction of the body termed écarté.

1957 G. 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.

1960 J. 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	écarté
释义	écartén. /ɛkartɛ/ Etymology: < French 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > écarté écarté1824 1824 (title) A Treatise on the Game of Écarté, as played in the first circles of London and Paris. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxv. 212 She watched over him kindly at écarté of a night. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 355 M. Cavaignac threw on an écarté-table in the Louvre a packet of cartridges. 1878 ‘Cavendish’ Laws of 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.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > movements > pose attitude1721 arabesque1828 pose1845 écarté1922 fish dive1943 1922 C. W. Beaumont & S. Idzikowski Man. Theory & Pract. Class. Theatr. Dancing i. 29 (caption) Position of the body in the direction of the body termed écarté. 1957 G. 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. 1960 J. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1824
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