carte soleil

English

Alternative forms

• carte-soleil

Etymology

French carte soleil

Noun

carte soleil (plural cartes soleil)

1. (Quebec, informal, medicine) The Quebec medicare card.
   • 2019, Suzanne Korf, "Give it your all by signing your organ donor medicare sticker", Montreal Gazette, ISSN 0839-3257

     I guess we can’t call it the carte-soleil anymore.

   • 2003, Christian Bourret, Gabriella Salzano, Daniel Laurent, "Data and cooperative work in Health Services", Proceedings Systems Integration 2003, DOI 10.1.1.197.3574

     In Quebec (Canada), the Carte Soleil organized by the Régie d'Assurance Maladie du Québec - RAMQ (Quebec Health Insurance Office), which has greatly inspired the French Carte Vitale should soon integrate emergency medical data thanks to a double authentication (patient and health professional).

   • 2000, “Canada Observed: Perspectives from Abroad and from Within”, in Jürgen Kleist, Shawn Huffman, →ISBN:

     ...so that every citizen of Quebec has a carte soleil, with the Quebec government icon on it.

Anagrams

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French

Alternative forms

• carte-soleil

Etymology

From carte (“card”) +‎ soleil (“sun”). 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.t(ə) sɔ.lɛj/

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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

• → English: carte soleil