Meaning of Carte | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A bill of fare; a menu.
3. A visiting card.
   dated
4. A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
   historical
5. A playing card.
   Scotland, dated

Equivalents

Examples

“"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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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