postcardn.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊs(t)kɑːd/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊs(t)ˌkɑrd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; apparently originally modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: post n.³, card n.²

Etymology: < post n.³ + card n.², apparently originally after German Postkarte (compare quots. 1869¹, 1869²). Compare postal card n. at postal adj. and n. Compounds.

A card designed to be carried by post without an envelope; spec. (a) (originally) a card of a regulation size, marked to show that postage has been prepaid, and used for correspondence; (b) a plain card having the same purpose on which an appropriate postage stamp must be attached (more fully blank postcard); (c) (now usually) = picture postcard n. and adj. (a) at picture n. Compounds 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > letter > card > [noun]

card1596

message card1746

birthday card1797

view card1822

acceptance1837

Easter card1842

wedding-cards1847

comic1860

postcard1869

letter card1870

postal card1870

pc1876

postal1877

note-card1884

photo card1890

greeting-card1898

picture postcard1899

seaside postcard1955

sympathy card1967

1869 Belfast News-let. 17 July A new invention connected with the post is to be shortly introduced in Austria—namely, that of so-called post cards... One side is a line for the address, and on the other the correspondent may write his message.

1869 Stamp-collector's Mag. 7 140/2 ‘The New Free Press of Vienna’, says our contemporary, La Timbrophile, ‘signalises a postal innovation in the creation of post-cards, destined in some sort to extend to correspondence the advantage which already exists in respect of packages sent under bands.’

1870 Times 14 June 11/1 From and after the 30th day of September, 1870, registered newspapers, book packets, pattern or sample packets, and post cards may be sent by post in the United Kingdom, at the following rates of postage.

1870 Dame Europa's School 16 He wrote home to his mother, on the back of a halfpenny post card, so that all the letter carriers might see how pious he was.

1873 Brit. Postal Guide 21 Every Head Postmaster is required to keep, for sale to the public..newspaper wrappers bearing an impressed halfpenny stamp, and Post Cards.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Feb. 2/3 The post-card was an Austrian invention, brought out in 1868, with a separate issue the following year for Hungary... We adopted the plan in 1870.

1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xxxi. 256 Helen..wrote an unsatisfactory postcard from the shores of the Lake of Garda, saying that her plans were uncertain and had better be ignored.

1938 Amer. Home Jan. 64/1 (advt.) It's the most interesting Dreer catalog ever issued... Send at once—use coupon below, or post-card or letter.

1954 R. Wailes Eng. Windmill xix. 161 Mr. Chambers sent a post card addressed simply, ‘Lot Ward, Alford’, and on the other side wrote, ‘Had enough wind, dakker it a little’ (i.e. let it up a bit).

1981 Dict. National Biogr. 1961–70 410/2 Three lines on a postcard from him said more than many a man could say in a long letter.

2002 A. Phillips Prague i. ii. 9 He sent to California a postcard with a picture of Castle Hill in Buda.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

postcard album n.

ΚΠ

1899 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 8/1 They have supplied the market with a postcard album.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 436 c Post Card Albums.

1992 Independent 29 Dec. 5/8 He also sees endless albums of cigarette-cards..and postcard albums.

postcard flower n.

ΚΠ

1929 R. Graves Poems 21 Post-card flower of Kodak mud.

postcard-monger n.

ΚΠ

1938 New Statesman 13 Aug. 241/2 He can make his way..to..the Museums, outside which eager postcard-mongers will sell him views of Westminster Abbey and the Tower.

postcard photograph n.

ΚΠ

1907 Times 4 Feb. 13/4 Many a member of our profession, not dreaming of the advent of the postcard photograph,..now finds the country flooded with counterfeit presentments of himself.

1987 W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Scapegoat 151 Among the letters there was a postcard photograph of a thin fair man with an indecisive mouth.

postcard poll n.

ΚΠ

1909 Daily Chron. 19 Mar. 1/6 There had been strong opposition..to the Sunday concerts, and a postcard poll was taken.

2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 Aug. 21 His lesson learned, three years later he took postcard polls from voters before backing Robert Wagner.

postcard portrait n.

ΚΠ

1907 Times 4 Feb. 13/4 Some of us would much like to know where we stand in the matter of the postcard portrait.

1997 Amer. Lit. Hist 9 412 The Weekly Anglo-African offered a dignified postcard portrait of the black major.

postcard stand n.

ΚΠ

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 428 (caption) Post card stand.

2004 Financial Times (Nexis) 2 Oct. 18 Storefronts offer silk, antiques, and aromatherapy. Spin the postcard stands, and you can almost smell the frangipani.

postcard survey n.

ΚΠ

1938 Helena (Montana) Independent 27 June 6/6 Only 42 per cent of the male jobless registered in last November's postcard survey were classified as unskilled.

1983 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 89 425 The 1964 postcard survey asked for the occupation, job title, and name of firm.

postcard system n.

ΚΠ

1897 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 3/2 Having adopted the custom of book-retention by the post-card system.

1965 Times 20 Dec. 6/7 The early revolutionary ‘postcard’ system, when divorce was to be had for the asking.

2003 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Oct. 28 We have a postcard system where drivers can let us know if badgers and otters..are being squashed on the roads.

b. In the sense ‘picturesque, such as might appear on a picture postcard, typical of a scene on a postcard’, as postcard land, postcard view.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > type of

beauty spot1846

picturesque1852

moonscape1907

mudscape1908

postcard land1918

cultural landscape1919

dunescape1928

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty1949

wirescape1951

AONB1957

Marlboro Country1961

roofscaping1962

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > fine or picturesque

bellaview1611

postcard view1918

1918 I. Gurney Let. 23 July (1991) 438 The postcard view is a famous one and beautiful enough for anything.

1947 J. F. Nims Iron Pastoral iii. 73 Here is the postcard land on every side.

1959 Listener 12 Mar. 459/1 He [sc. Utrillo] was undoubtedly clever at enlarging, squaring-up, colouring and feeling his way into postcard views of paintable motifs.

1979 M. Sharp Sunflower v. 45 They were crossing the Triboro Bridge, with its postcard view of the city.

1986 D. Mahon Hunt by Night 49 Skies are the blue Of postcard skies, and the leaves green.

1992 Face Feb. 60/2 A..comedy cum cartoon chase set against the postcard landscapes and white trash tack of New Mexico.

C2.

postcard-perfect adj.

ΚΠ

1993 Sports Illustr. 13 Sept. 26/3 A 50-yard touchdown on a postcard-perfect fly pass down the middle.

2005 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 1 Feb. 7 It's another postcard-perfect atoll.

postcard-size adj.

ΚΠ

1913 Geogr. Jrnl. 41 200 These photographs..are of post-card size and give an excellent idea of the swampy nature of the region.

1926 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) 21 Post Card size... Generally applied to a board measuring 22½ x 28 in., out of which 32 official post cards may be cut.

1973 R. Busby Pattern of Violence iv. 60 A handful of postcard-size prints.

2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. e38 A lovely, postcard-size watercolor of a lounging tiger painted around 1847.

C3.

postcard beauty n. a beautiful woman in fashionable society whose picture was available on postcards which could be collected by admirers.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman > other types of beautiful woman

English rose1780

breeches-figure1808

postcard beauty1912

bathing beauty1920

bathing belle1924

1912 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald (Special Cable News) a5/3 Most Famous Postcard Beauty in the World.

1924 G. B. Shaw Let. in To Young Actress (1960) 66 I think you will gravitate towards literature after a reign as a postcard beauty.

1958 Sunday Times 28 Sept. 4/7 She was included among the postcard beauties of her musical-comedy days.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

postcardv.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊs(t)kɑːd/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊs(t)ˌkɑrd/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: postcard n.

Etymology: < postcard n.

1. transitive. To communicate with or inform (a person, organization, etc.) by postcard; to communicate (information, a message) by postcard. Also: to depict on a postcard.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)] > send postcard to

card1830

postcard1877

1877 E. Fitzgerald Let. Dec. (1980) iv. 91 Even if you have post-carded a Visit, don't come if weather foul.

1910 Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 5/3 (advt.) Patterns ready for sending by return post. Postcard us to-day.

1950 K. Amis Let. 17 Dec. (2000) 250 Crippen now postcards me to the effect that the arts council want 4 characters.

1986 Time Mag. (Nexis) 1 Dec. 80 It is a characteristic of great painting that no matter how many times it has been cloned, reproduced and postcarded, it can restore itself.

1996 Press Enterprise (Riverside, California) (Nexis) 11 June b1 Mildred Staples, out in Sun City, postcarded: ‘You forgot to mention gone but not forgotten.’

2. intransitive. To send a postcard.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (intransitive)] > send postcard

postcard1934

1934 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 15 Sept. 6/5 Freeman Gosden..postcarded from the wilds of Alaska of his triump[h]s as a porpoise hunter.

1947 Ki-grams (Washington, D.C. Kiwanis Club) 6 Feb. Zeddie Blackistone post-cards about the flowers, the sunshine and golf at Palm Beach.

1969 Lima (Ohio) News 23 Mar. c2/7 The Judge postcarded to tell of the beauty of India's Taj Mahal.

1995 Sunday Riverside (Riverside, Calif.) (Nexis) 20 Aug. b1 Justin & Alex..postcarded from Henderson, Nev.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	postcard
释义	postcardn. Brit. /ˈpəʊs(t)kɑːd/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌkɑrd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; apparently originally modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: post n.³, card n.² Etymology: < post n.³ + card n.², apparently originally after German Postkarte (compare quots. 1869¹, 1869²). Compare postal card n. at postal adj. and n. Compounds. A card designed to be carried by post without an envelope; spec. (a) (originally) a card of a regulation size, marked to show that postage has been prepaid, and used for correspondence; (b) a plain card having the same purpose on which an appropriate postage stamp must be attached (more fully blank postcard); (c) (now usually) = picture postcard n. and adj. (a) at picture n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > card > [noun] card1596 message card1746 birthday card1797 view card1822 acceptance1837 Easter card1842 wedding-cards1847 comic1860 postcard1869 letter card1870 postal card1870 pc1876 postal1877 note-card1884 photo card1890 greeting-card1898 picture postcard1899 seaside postcard1955 sympathy card1967 1869 Belfast News-let. 17 July A new invention connected with the post is to be shortly introduced in Austria—namely, that of so-called post cards... One side is a line for the address, and on the other the correspondent may write his message. 1869 Stamp-collector's Mag. 7 140/2 ‘The New Free Press of Vienna’, says our contemporary, La Timbrophile, ‘signalises a postal innovation in the creation of post-cards, destined in some sort to extend to correspondence the advantage which already exists in respect of packages sent under bands.’ 1870 Times 14 June 11/1 From and after the 30th day of September, 1870, registered newspapers, book packets, pattern or sample packets, and post cards may be sent by post in the United Kingdom, at the following rates of postage. 1870 Dame Europa's School 16 He wrote home to his mother, on the back of a halfpenny post card, so that all the letter carriers might see how pious he was. 1873 Brit. Postal Guide 21 Every Head Postmaster is required to keep, for sale to the public..newspaper wrappers bearing an impressed halfpenny stamp, and Post Cards. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Feb. 2/3 The post-card was an Austrian invention, brought out in 1868, with a separate issue the following year for Hungary... We adopted the plan in 1870. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xxxi. 256 Helen..wrote an unsatisfactory postcard from the shores of the Lake of Garda, saying that her plans were uncertain and had better be ignored. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 64/1 (advt.) It's the most interesting Dreer catalog ever issued... Send at once—use coupon below, or post-card or letter. 1954 R. Wailes Eng. Windmill xix. 161 Mr. Chambers sent a post card addressed simply, ‘Lot Ward, Alford’, and on the other side wrote, ‘Had enough wind, dakker it a little’ (i.e. let it up a bit). 1981 Dict. National Biogr. 1961–70 410/2 Three lines on a postcard from him said more than many a man could say in a long letter. 2002 A. Phillips Prague i. ii. 9 He sent to California a postcard with a picture of Castle Hill in Buda. Compounds C1. attributive. a. postcard album n. ΚΠ 1899 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 8/1 They have supplied the market with a postcard album. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 436 c Post Card Albums. 1992 Independent 29 Dec. 5/8 He also sees endless albums of cigarette-cards..and postcard albums. postcard flower n. ΚΠ 1929 R. Graves Poems 21 Post-card flower of Kodak mud. postcard-monger n. ΚΠ 1938 New Statesman 13 Aug. 241/2 He can make his way..to..the Museums, outside which eager postcard-mongers will sell him views of Westminster Abbey and the Tower. postcard photograph n. ΚΠ 1907 Times 4 Feb. 13/4 Many a member of our profession, not dreaming of the advent of the postcard photograph,..now finds the country flooded with counterfeit presentments of himself. 1987 W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Scapegoat 151 Among the letters there was a postcard photograph of a thin fair man with an indecisive mouth. postcard poll n. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 19 Mar. 1/6 There had been strong opposition..to the Sunday concerts, and a postcard poll was taken. 2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 Aug. 21 His lesson learned, three years later he took postcard polls from voters before backing Robert Wagner. postcard portrait n. ΚΠ 1907 Times 4 Feb. 13/4 Some of us would much like to know where we stand in the matter of the postcard portrait. 1997 Amer. Lit. Hist 9 412 The Weekly Anglo-African offered a dignified postcard portrait of the black major. postcard stand n. ΚΠ 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 428 (caption) Post card stand. 2004 Financial Times (Nexis) 2 Oct. 18 Storefronts offer silk, antiques, and aromatherapy. Spin the postcard stands, and you can almost smell the frangipani. postcard survey n. ΚΠ 1938 Helena (Montana) Independent 27 June 6/6 Only 42 per cent of the male jobless registered in last November's postcard survey were classified as unskilled. 1983 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 89 425 The 1964 postcard survey asked for the occupation, job title, and name of firm. postcard system n. ΚΠ 1897 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 3/2 Having adopted the custom of book-retention by the post-card system. 1965 Times 20 Dec. 6/7 The early revolutionary ‘postcard’ system, when divorce was to be had for the asking. 2003 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Oct. 28 We have a postcard system where drivers can let us know if badgers and otters..are being squashed on the roads. b. In the sense ‘picturesque, such as might appear on a picture postcard, typical of a scene on a postcard’, as postcard land, postcard view. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > type of beauty spot1846 picturesque1852 moonscape1907 mudscape1908 postcard land1918 cultural landscape1919 dunescape1928 Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty1949 wirescape1951 AONB1957 Marlboro Country1961 roofscaping1962 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > fine or picturesque bellaview1611 postcard view1918 1918 I. Gurney Let. 23 July (1991) 438 The postcard view is a famous one and beautiful enough for anything. 1947 J. F. Nims Iron Pastoral iii. 73 Here is the postcard land on every side. 1959 Listener 12 Mar. 459/1 He [sc. Utrillo] was undoubtedly clever at enlarging, squaring-up, colouring and feeling his way into postcard views of paintable motifs. 1979 M. Sharp Sunflower v. 45 They were crossing the Triboro Bridge, with its postcard view of the city. 1986 D. Mahon Hunt by Night 49 Skies are the blue Of postcard skies, and the leaves green. 1992 Face Feb. 60/2 A..comedy cum cartoon chase set against the postcard landscapes and white trash tack of New Mexico. C2. postcard-perfect adj. ΚΠ 1993 Sports Illustr. 13 Sept. 26/3 A 50-yard touchdown on a postcard-perfect fly pass down the middle. 2005 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 1 Feb. 7 It's another postcard-perfect atoll. postcard-size adj. ΚΠ 1913 Geogr. Jrnl. 41 200 These photographs..are of post-card size and give an excellent idea of the swampy nature of the region. 1926 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) 21 Post Card size... Generally applied to a board measuring 22½ x 28 in., out of which 32 official post cards may be cut. 1973 R. Busby Pattern of Violence iv. 60 A handful of postcard-size prints. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. e38 A lovely, postcard-size watercolor of a lounging tiger painted around 1847. C3. postcard beauty n. a beautiful woman in fashionable society whose picture was available on postcards which could be collected by admirers. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman > other types of beautiful woman English rose1780 breeches-figure1808 postcard beauty1912 bathing beauty1920 bathing belle1924 1912 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald (Special Cable News) a5/3 Most Famous Postcard Beauty in the World. 1924 G. B. Shaw Let. in To Young Actress (1960) 66 I think you will gravitate towards literature after a reign as a postcard beauty. 1958 Sunday Times 28 Sept. 4/7 She was included among the postcard beauties of her musical-comedy days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). postcardv. Brit. /ˈpəʊs(t)kɑːd/, U.S. /ˈpoʊs(t)ˌkɑrd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: postcard n. Etymology: < postcard n. 1. transitive. To communicate with or inform (a person, organization, etc.) by postcard; to communicate (information, a message) by postcard. Also: to depict on a postcard. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)] > send postcard to card1830 postcard1877 1877 E. Fitzgerald Let. Dec. (1980) iv. 91 Even if you have post-carded a Visit, don't come if weather foul. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 5/3 (advt.) Patterns ready for sending by return post. Postcard us to-day. 1950 K. Amis Let. 17 Dec. (2000) 250 Crippen now postcards me to the effect that the arts council want 4 characters. 1986 Time Mag. (Nexis) 1 Dec. 80 It is a characteristic of great painting that no matter how many times it has been cloned, reproduced and postcarded, it can restore itself. 1996 Press Enterprise (Riverside, California) (Nexis) 11 June b1 Mildred Staples, out in Sun City, postcarded: ‘You forgot to mention gone but not forgotten.’ 2. intransitive. To send a postcard. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (intransitive)] > send postcard postcard1934 1934 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 15 Sept. 6/5 Freeman Gosden..postcarded from the wilds of Alaska of his triump[h]s as a porpoise hunter. 1947 Ki-grams (Washington, D.C. Kiwanis Club) 6 Feb. Zeddie Blackistone post-cards about the flowers, the sunshine and golf at Palm Beach. 1969 Lima (Ohio) News 23 Mar. c2/7 The Judge postcarded to tell of the beauty of India's Taj Mahal. 1995 Sunday Riverside (Riverside, Calif.) (Nexis) 20 Aug. b1 Justin & Alex..postcarded from Henderson, Nev. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869v.1877
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