‖ partie
[mod.F. partie (parti).]
A match in a game; a game. partie carrée, † partie quarrée [F., = square or quadrate party] a party of four.
| 1678 Dryden Limberham iv. ii, Well, I have won the partie, and revenge. 1816 Singer Hist. Cards 16 The parties at Cards are doubled. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair li, Champignac was very fond of écarté, and made many parties with the Colonel of evenings. 1876 A. Campbell-Walker Correct Card (1880) Gloss. 13 Partie, the same players playing two rubbers consecutively, or, should it be necessary, a third rubber, to decide which is the best of the three rubbers. |
| 1739 Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 186 Very often in a tete à tete and sometimes in a partie quarrée. a 1845 Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. Ld. Thoulouse, The partie quarrée had like aldermen fed. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 130 A partie-carrée composed of George..his mother, sister, and Mr. John. |