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Definition of Cardhouse
1. Noun. An unstable construction with playing cards. "He built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardhouse
Literary usage of Cardhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... and, beginning at one extreme of the line, break rapidly to the other, as a
long cardhouse falls when the children knock down the cards at one end. ..."
2. The Tombs of the Popes: Landmarks in Papal History by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1903)
""That adventurer in the mask of Washington has conquered, and boldly builds up
the great cardhouse of his lies before the eyes of Europe, without Truth ..."
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