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Definition of Cardsharpers
1. cardsharper [n] - See also: cardsharper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardsharpers
Literary usage of Cardsharpers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Stock cards, to (cardsharpers), to arrange cards for cheating purposes. Stock,
long of, explained by quotation. Long of stock is an American term for a ..."
2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1897)
"Thus we do not so speak of despots when they sack cities and plunder temples; we
rather speak of them as wicked, impious, and unjust. But cardsharpers ..."
3. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Tr. with an Analysis and Critical Notes by Aristotle (1908)
"Thus we do not so speak of despots when they sack cities and plunder temples ;
we rather speak of them as wicked, impious, and unjust But cardsharpers, ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... 30 May 1708, 8vo, 1778 (by this piece Foote reaped" between 3000/. and 4000/.
; on his way to Ireland he lost 1700/. at Rath to cardsharpers, and had to ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"Flying across the desert by the Euphrates Valley Railway, tightly wedged between
a set of cardsharpers in a third-class carriage, he may possibly look back ..."
6. Westward by Rail: A Journey to San Francisco and Back and a Visit to the Mormons by William Fraser Rae (1871)
"... other set of spectators than one composed of old Californians, who are too
knowing birds to be caught by the chaff of cardsharpers. ..."
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