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Trick-taking card game
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ecarte
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Écarté is a two-player card game originating from France , the word literally meaning "discarded". It is a trick-taking game , similar to whist , but with a special and eponymous discarding phase. It is closely related to Euchre , a card game played mainly ...
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n. A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
Usage examples of ecarte.
Suddenly the General, who was still going on with his eternal game at ecarte with the prefect, turned round.
On the day after my adventure in the summer-house, he came in as I was playing a hand of ecarte with Fritz von Tarlenheim.