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Carte

//kɑː(ɹ)t// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A bill of fare; a menu.
  2. 2
    Alternative form of quarte. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    a list of dishes available at a restaurant wordnet
  4. 4
    A visiting card. dated

    ""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."

  5. 5
    A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person). historical

    "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."

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  1. 6
    A playing card. Scotland, dated

    "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."

Etymology

Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. Doublet of card and chart.

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