экарте

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from French écarté.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɪkɐrˈtʲe]

Noun

экарте́ • (ekarté) n inan (indeclinable)

  1. écarté
    • 1937, Владимир Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov], “Глава вторая”, in Дар; English translation from Michael Scammell with the collaboration of the author, transl., The Gift, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1963:
      На́житое состоя́ние он проигра́л в экарте́ на миссиси́пском киль-бо́те[...]
      Nážitoje sostojánije on proigrál v ekarté na missisípskom kilʹ-bóte[...]
      The fortune he had made he lost playing écarté on a Mississippi keel-boat[...]
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