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- noun Plural form of
card . - noun
card game
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- noun a game played with playing cards
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Examples
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Tarot cards were originally just **playing cards** for card games.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Looking for Cute Tarot Deck To Use for Calling Randomly on Students: 2007
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A game at cards; in a more refined dialect, _old-coat-and-jerkin_; called also _five cards_.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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That, madam, must be your part; you must take a house and see company; in a little while you may keep an assembly, and play at cards as high as you can; and almost all the money that is won must be put into the box, which you must call _paying for the cards_; though it is indeed paying for your candles, your cloaths, your lodgings, and, in short, everything you have.
The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12 Henry Fielding 1730
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Only gay men are that sensitive and emotional and straight men don’t give birthday cards or Valentine’s Day cards ”
whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2006
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Once they were all seated by their name cards around the hollow rectangle table, Randa addressed them.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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Once they were all seated by their name cards around the hollow rectangle table, Randa addressed them.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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Once they were all seated by their name cards around the hollow rectangle table, Randa addressed them.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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The come-ons are everywhere in this show, from the vaguely Oceanic color scheme on the doomed airliner to the very CTU-like font choice in the title cards, which tell you the names of characters and what day and hour this is.
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The title cards provide some excellent prose, observations on life more than descriptions of the action.
Archive 2009-06-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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The title cards provide some excellent prose, observations on life more than descriptions of the action.
True Life Movies Pt 1 - "The Crowd" - 1928 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
kewpid commented on the word cards
A (probably jilted) woman once said that a man is like a deck of playing cards. You need:
A ♥ to love him;
A ♦ to marry him;
A ♣ to smash his stupid head in; and
A ♠ to bury the bastard.
November 2, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cards
Ooh. That doesn't sound very nice.
November 2, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word cards
Seen today here at slate.com:
'The NYT reports that Cave Creek, Ariz., selected its newest town council member with a deck of cards. Two men received the same number of votes for a seat on the council, so a game of chance was used to select the winner. This is all apparently allowed by the state's Constitution, and "a handful" of local elections in Arizona have been decided with the help of cards or dice. "It's a hell of a way to win—or lose—an election," said the 64-year-old retired science teacher who lost his seat on the council when he selected the six of hearts.'
June 18, 2009
rolig commented on the word cards
I love it!
June 18, 2009
reesetee commented on the word cards
Democracy in action.
June 18, 2009