单词 | playing card |
释义 | playing cardn. Each of a set or pack of cards used in playing various games; = card n.2 1.A standard pack contains 52 cards divided into four suits. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] card1463 playing card1480 carte1497 bookc1575 charta1680 broad1789 flat1819 pasteboard1840 paper1842 painted mischief1879 boards1923 1480 Petty Customs Acct. in H. S. Cobb Overseas Trade of London (1990) 184 [3 grs.] playing cardes. 1543 tr. Act 3 Edw. IV c. 4 No marchant..shal bryng..into this realme..chessemen, playeng cardes [Fr. cardes a Juer]. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squares, those that we call diamonds or picts vpon playing cardes. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1925/4 Making of Playing Cards in England, (wherein many hundred Poor People are imployed). 1762 S. Carolina Gaz. 16 Nov. 3/2 Just imported and to be sold by John Watson..the following goods,..playing cards & sundry sorts of stationary wares, anchovies, capers, olives, walnuts, glew, Indigo, starch, salt peter, vinegar, train oil, corks, shoes sundry sorts. 1816 G. W. Singer (title) Researches into the history of playing cards. 1880 Harper's Mag. Jan. 178/2 Invitations were printed on playing-cards. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 771/2 The death duties, the corporation duty, the duties on patent medicines and playing cards, and postage duties, are also technically ‘stamp duties’. 1994 Denver Post 16 Jan. i5/1 The hard disk drive in my subnotebook computer is about the size of a deck of playing cards. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1480 |
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