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Definition of Deck of cards
1. Noun. A pack of 52 playing cards.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deck Of Cards
Literary usage of Deck of cards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The queerest deck of cards is probably that collected by a Chicago man named
Frank Damek. It is said to be composed of cards of all qualities, ..."
2. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"The queerest deck of cards is probably that collected by a Chicago man named
Frank Damek. It is said to be composed of cards of all qualities, ..."
3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"IN some parts of the north of England a pack of cards is called to this day, as
it is in Shakespeare's Plays, a deck of cards. In the Gent. Mag. for Jan. ..."
4. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"Steevens, in his commentary, remarks, " A pack of cards was anciently term'da
deck of cards ..."
5. Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"In some parts of the North of England a pack of cards to this day is called in
Shakespearian phrase a " deck " of cards. According to a writer in the ..."
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