单词 | card basket |
释义 | > as lemmascard basket b. General use as modifier (in senses 7 and 10), as in card basket, card case, card rack, card tray, and with participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which card expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in card-exchanging, card-leaving, card-making, etc. ΚΠ 1776 Daily Advertiser, 20 June (advt.) Card Dishes,..Card Racks, and sundry other Articles. 1835 F. Marryat Olla Podrida viii, in Metrop. Mag. Again drawing out his card-case. 1841 A. Bache Fire-screen p. viii To this treasury does the tasteful disposer of drawing-room decorations consign her antiquated card-baskets. 1852 Mrs. E. Twisleton Let. 1 July (1928) i. 9 Mr. Twisleton having gone out to order a cardplate for me. 1853 E. Ruskin Let. 30 Nov. in M. Lutyens Millais & Ruskins (1967) 113 Continual letter-writing and note-sending and card-leaving on every body in and around Edinburgh. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xiv. 235 Margaret took out her card-case. 1872 C. M. Yonge P's & Q's vi. 58 She began to search in the card basket. 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors ii. 27 My card-receiver is full of most fashionable names. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 10/1 The Hague, in the opening days of the Peace Conference, was simply a mass of card-exchanging foreigners. 1906 Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 4/4 Visits, servants, dress and card-leaving—all the minor courtesies of life come under notice. 2016 @PahlaviLondon 31 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 3 June 2020) Antique German Silver Plated Card Tray. < as lemmas |
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