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Definition of Card-playing
1. Adjective. Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance. "Sporting gents and their ladies"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Card-playing
Literary usage of Card-playing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"card-playing on the Atlantic. ' him a year's trial. If she is not comfortable at
the ' expiration of that time, she means to go back to Scotland ' again. ..."
2. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"Card Playing.—Sunday.—Mass.—A Dinner Party.—Mementoes of Home.— Dinner Customs.—Return
to tha Kuins.—A marked Change.—Terrific Thunder.—A Whirlwind. ..."
3. The Bookman (1903)
""Pa" does not spend a great deal of time in the smoking room ; in fact, he looks
upon the place, its atmosphere, its card playing, and its fondness for ..."
4. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... the family—-Precaution against famine—English praying and card-playing—Exercise
for mind and body—Knight-errantry—Sentimentality and mawkish- ness— The ..."
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