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playing card
noun
- one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- one of any set or pack of cards used in playing games.
playing card
noun
- one of a pack of 52 rectangular stiff cards, used for playing a variety of games, each card having one or more symbols of the same kind (diamonds, hearts, clubs, or spades) on the face, but an identical design on the reverse See also suit
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Word History and Origins
Origin of playing card1
First recorded in 1535–45
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Example Sentences
Biography has, too, its place in this playing-card cosmography, though it has not many examples.
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It was neither a visiting nor a playing card, but one bearing a photographic portrait of a peculiar nature.
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It was not a letter at all—as it proved—but a soiled and stained playing card, the Knave of Clubs.
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Out of a piece of Bristol-board (an old playing-card will do) cut a figure in the shape of the annexed diagram.
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It enlarges rapidly from a postage-stamp to a playing-card; to a punt and last a pontoon.
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