单词 | transformation card |
释义 | > as lemmastransformation card transformation card n. (also transformation playing card) a playing card on which the suit signs are incorporated into a design or picture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > card of specific design squeezer1876 transformation card1931 1848 W. A. Chatto Facts Hist. Playing Cards iv. 260 In 1811 two different packs of caricature cards, imitated..from the picture-cards in Cotta's Almanack, appeared in England... On the wrapper of both packs the inscription is the same: ‘Metastasis. Transformation of Playing-cards.’] 1931 H. T. Morley Old & Curious Playing Cards 152 Transformation cards, 1828. A pack of 52 cards,..printed from wood blocks. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 286/2 Transformation playing cards, first issued in London 1808... Making transformation cards from ordinary packs became a fashionable pastime, pen and ink converting cards into designs of topical or personal association. 1966 S. Mann Collecting Playing Cards viii. 164 Transformation cards are a rather different case... Their aim is to ‘transform’ an ordinary pip card into a picture by means of incorporating the pips in their standard positions in a larger overall design. < as lemmas |
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