"Ecarte" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shinny, tag &c; billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain^, American bowls^; tenpins [U.S.], tivoli. cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique^, euchre, drole^, ecarte [Fr.], picquet^, allfours^, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston^; blackjack, twenty- one, vingtun [Fr.]; quinze [Fr.], thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino^, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren^, lift smoke, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... just forty-one they amounted; Of Musk too, I'm told, he sheds such perfume, That wherever he goes, he fills the whole room. Exclude him we will, with the old Dromedary,[23] The Elephant[24] cunning, and Fox[25] too, so wary, That though I don't know it for certain, I'm told They cheat at Ecarte, like ...
— The Emperor's Rout • Unknown |
