écarté

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écarté

▶noun

• 1 /eɪˈkɑːteɪ/ a card game for two players, in which thirty-two cards are used and certain cards may be discarded in exchange for others.

• 2 /ˌeɪkɑːˈteɪ/ Ballet a position in which the dancer extends one leg in the air to the side with the arm of the same side raised above the head and the other arm extended to the side.

– origin C19: Fr., past part. of écarter ‘discard’.