Meaning of playing-card | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of playing card.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“Among the best and the most tasteful of the productions thus embellished are some new playing-cards, printed by Mr. De La Rue, which, with extreme richness of ornaments, combine all that the most fastidious whist player could desire.”

“In a dusty shop of a small town in Guangdong I had bought some Mao playing-cards and some Mao cassettes.”

“On my last visit I bought some lettered playing-cards lined up in a frame to spell out carpe diem.”

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