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Definition of Playing card

1. Noun. One of a pack of cards that are used to play card games.

Definition of Playing card

1. Noun. One of usually 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play numerous games, featuring either one to 10 pips or a picture and belonging of one of four suits. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Playing Card

Literary usage of Playing card

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"playing card», in packs not exceeding fifty-four cards and "at a like rate for any number in excess, ..."

2. Lockwood's Directory of the Paper and Allied Trades by Harry Dyer, Sophie M. Wolert, Vance Publishing Corporation (1905)
"The Dorrity playing card Mfg. Co., 201 Wooster street, NY ANDREW DOUGHERTY, 78 Centre street, ... New Chicago playing card and Flag Mfg. Co., Waukegan 111. ..."

3. A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming by Frederic Jessel (1905)
"The United States playing card Co., Cincinnati, 1900. 226. CARDS.—A New Game at Cards, or the Three Nimble Shuffling Cheaters. (A broadside, S. sh. folio, ..."

4. The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms: A Handbook of Definations and by Alexander A. Stewart (1912)
"... used in playing-card literature: * * + *. See playing cards. Card Pips—Fifty-three characters representing each card of a pack of playing cards. ..."

5. The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 by Trumbull White, William Igleheart (1893)
"The evolution of the domino from the dice and the playing card from the domino is illustrated here ; the first playing card ever printed in America is shown ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"playing card», in packs not exceeding fifty-four cards and "at a like rate for any number in excess, ..."

7. Lockwood's Directory of the Paper and Allied Trades by Harry Dyer, Sophie M. Wolert, Vance Publishing Corporation (1905)
"The Dorrity playing card Mfg. Co., 201 Wooster street, NY ANDREW DOUGHERTY, 78 Centre street, ... New Chicago playing card and Flag Mfg. Co., Waukegan 111. ..."

8. A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming by Frederic Jessel (1905)
"The United States playing card Co., Cincinnati, 1900. 226. CARDS.—A New Game at Cards, or the Three Nimble Shuffling Cheaters. (A broadside, S. sh. folio, ..."

9. The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms: A Handbook of Definations and by Alexander A. Stewart (1912)
"... used in playing-card literature: * * + *. See playing cards. Card Pips—Fifty-three characters representing each card of a pack of playing cards. ..."

10. The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 by Trumbull White, William Igleheart (1893)
"The evolution of the domino from the dice and the playing card from the domino is illustrated here ; the first playing card ever printed in America is shown ..."

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