| court card | |
| —n | |
| US equivalent: face card (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit | |
| [C17: altered from earlier coat-card, from the decorative coats worn by the figures depicted] | |
| court card | |
noun | |
| one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face [syn: face card] |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |