carte /kɑː(ɹ)t/ noun4 •A bill of fare; a menu. •(historical) A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).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. — 2013 •(old-fashioned) A visiting card. •(Scotland, old-fashioned) A playing card.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. — 1886 formscartes