| 单词 | ppc card |
| 释义 | > as lemmasP.P.C. card More fully P.P.C. card. A card announcing a person's departure from a town, social event, etc. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > expressions of leave-taking > written notice of leave-taking P.P.C.1788 1788 Times 18 Apr. 3/3 The card left on taking leave of a place was P.P.C. which, turned into language, was Pour prendre conge. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xvi, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 406 I shall make my finale, and shall thus have a verbal P.P.C. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xxvii. 378 The..count announced his departure by a P.P.C. 1883 R. Kipling Let. 14 Aug. in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) iv. 53 I distributed my P.P.C. cards. 1945 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 14 Apr. 4/5 Is it necessary to send an acknowledgment when one receives a P.P.C. card? < as lemmas |
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