carte soleil

English

Etymology

French carte soleil

Alternative forms
  • carte-soleil

Noun

carte soleil (plural carte soleils)

  1. (Quebec, slang, medicine) The Quebec medicare card.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

carte +‎ soleil. From the sunset in a spruce forest illustration on the card, from a photo of a sunset at Lac Faillon, Quebec, taken by Robert Larivière in the 1970s, and used by Louis Larivière for the winning design of the card.

Alternative forms
  • carte-soleil

Noun

carte soleil f (plural cartes soleil)

  1. (Quebec, informal, medicine) Synonym of carte d'assurance maladie du Québec (the Quebec medicare card)
  2. (by extension) Any socialized health insurance card, government health care card, medicare card.

Descendants
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.