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Definition of Pack of cards
1. Noun. A pack of 52 playing cards.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pack Of Cards
Literary usage of Pack of cards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"A curious and undoubtedly authentic historical anecdote is told of a pack of cards.
Towards the end of the persecuting reign of Queen Mary, a commission was ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In 1509 a Franciscan friar, Thomas Murner, published an exposition of logic in
the form of a pack of cards, and a pack invented in 1651 by Baptist Pendle ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"The soldier pulled out of his pocket the pack of cards, which he spread before the
... When I count how many spots there are in a pack of cards, I find 365; ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1890)
"A Pack of Cards. ("V^OU see these ? They belonged to Francis Farmer; Colonel JL
Farmer he called himself; " The Colonel," he was known as among his pals. ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1909)
"115, was also a prosecution for suffering a gaming device on one's premises, the
same being a pack of cards; the conviction was sustained, ..."
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