| 单词 | blank postcard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblank postcard 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. < as lemmas |
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