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carte

[kahrt, kart] / kɑrt, kart /
NOUN
bill of fare
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The trio was given carte blanche to design their individual spaces, which include a bathroom, walk-in closet and fireplace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The airline’s strategy reflects a push toward a la carte pricing even for premium tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Such emotional familiarity ensures that even a quick dinner over sandwiches in the park can provide us with conversational carte blanche, a space to decompress and demystify without judgment.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Immigration agents, I noted, were acting as though they had carte blanche to detain people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, conducting raids that sometimes swept up American citizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Thus he could fall asleep that night untroubled by the nightmare that he had given Crick carte blanche for another foray into frenzied inconsiderateness.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

One scholar of feline memology notes that in the 1870s, photographs of cats were put on cutesy cartes de visite.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013

Yet he also adorned many of them with elaborate hand-drawn frames, a devotional touch that evokes cartes de visites and other early, personal forms of photography.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2010

I am much in want of cartes de visite to distribute on my own account, and am tired and disgusted with all the undesirable likenesses as yet presented of me.

From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields

She could not tell why she took the cartes out of the envelope and ran them listlessly through her fingers; but at the last of the package she uttered a cry.

From Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play by Octave Thanet

It's rather gratuitous, as I'm eating his bread—or rather, his perfectly gorgeous à la cartes, and am literally smeared with luxury, from my rising up until my lying down, at his expense.

From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson


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