Lexic.us

Definition of Postal card

1. Noun. A card for sending messages by post without an envelope.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postal Card

Literary usage of Postal card

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"He urged a local parcel post confined to the rural routes at low rates, and he advocated installing automatic stamp and postal-card vending machines in ..."

2. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1911)
"A LESSON FROM A postal card. A FEW days ago I gave my pupils a post card from Havana, Cuba. There was a grove of trees in the background and in the ..."

3. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"(e) The addition to a postal card of matter other than as above authorized will annul its privileges as a postal card and subject it, when sent in the mails ..."

4. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"(e) The addition to a postal card of matter other than as above authorized wilt annul Us privileges as a postal card and subject It, when sent in the malls, ..."

5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Last and greatest came Walter S. McPhail, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, "who claims to have transferred to the back ol a postal card ten thousand two hundred ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"... and second classes by private express, and providing for a return message postal-card, are proposed for insertion in Judge Bissell's bill : SECTION 24. ..."

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