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Definition of Cardplayers
1. cardplayer [n] - See also: cardplayer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardplayers
Literary usage of Cardplayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... a game without hurt), what cause then hath our dice and cardplayers to repent
and craue pardon at God's hands for their wicked and detestable playing ? ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"It is a phrase of dicers and cardplayers, primauté being the lead, or right of
playing first. The meaning, therefore, is “to draw for the lead. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"(3), and Coast Views with Fishmonger (2), cardplayers before Inn, Nantes Museum.—Ch.
Blanc, École flamande ; Kug- ler (Crowe), ii. 537 ; Michiels, x. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"The cardplayers have plunged suddenly in medias res of bargaining. The man who
had volunteered to stand me a seltzer and sherry has forgotten all about his ..."
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