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Definition of Card-house
1. Noun. An unstable construction with playing cards. "He built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Card-house
Literary usage of Card-house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Next-to-nothing House by Alice Van Leer Carrick (1922)
"THE NEXT-TO-NOTHING HOUSE I THE PICTURE POST-CARD HOUSE SOMEWHAT back from the
village street it stands, this little, low eighteenth-century cottage of ours ..."
2. How to Do Science Experiments with Children by Joan Bentley (2003)
"Question: What will happen to a card house when a card near the middle is ...
A card house usually starts with two cards positioned in a "tepee" shape. ..."
3. English Society of the Eighteenth Century in Contemporary Art by Randall Davies (1907)
"Meantime her two little brothers had been building a card house on the floor ...
The card house has reached the second storey, under the able attentions of ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"The three views here before us may be familiarly exemplified by supposing the
sugar to be a card-house. According to Stahl, the ferment is somebody who ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"The three views here before us may be familiarly exemplified by supposing the
sugar to be a card-house. According to Stahl, the ferment is somebody who ..."
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