Carte

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
carte

▶noun variant spelling of quart (sense 2).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quart

▶noun

• 1 a unit of liquid capacity equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent in Britain to approximately 1.13 litres and in the US to approximately 0.94 litre.

  ■ N. Amer. a unit of dry capacity equivalent to approximately 1.10 litres.

• 2 /kɑːt/ (also quarte or carte) Fencing the fourth of eight parrying positions.

• 3 (in piquet) a sequence of four cards of the same suit.

– origin ME: from OFr. quarte, from L. quarta (pars) ‘fourth (part)’, from quartus ‘fourth’.