A playing card bearing a ‘coated’ or habited figure (king, queen, or knave). In regular use down to 1688; afterwards corrupted in court-card, n.

Clad in a coat; furnished with or having a coat or coats. Often in parasynthetic combinations, as long-coated, thick-coated. †coated card: = coat-card…

Short for coat-card, n. Obsolete.

A playing card bearing the figure of a king, queen, or knave; a picture-card.

A court-card. Obsolete. rare.

Cards. Short for face card n. at compounds 2. rare.

a card decorated with a picture; spec. †(a) a court or face card in a pack of playing cards (cf. pictured card n. at pictured, adj. compounds) (obs…

= face card n. at face, n. compounds 2, court-card, n. 1; also figurative.

a playing card which has a picture on it; a court card, a picture card, the king, queen, or jack. Now rare.

a playing card bearing a face (of a king, queen, or jack); = coat-card, n.; cf. earlier faced-card n. at faced, adj.1 compounds.