Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small pocket-case, generally of an ornamental kind, for holding the visiting-cards of the bearer.
  • noun A case of drawers in which catalogue-cards are arranged.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A case for visiting cards.

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  • noun A case for visiting cards.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small case for carrying business cards

Etymologies

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card +‎ case

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Examples

  • I keep my purse very small so it won't fill up so there's not much else besides wallet, phone, cardcase, pen sometimes, a rather dented Julian card and a lot of assorted other people's cards and scraps of paper with scribbles.

    Cat in the bag? Michelle 2008

  • Ermine's had been built as a private house, or so it appeared—built for someone with a bottomless cardcase and a deep appreciation of pillars, arches, friezes, and cornices and the like; features he had previously seen only as fading designs painted on the otherwise stark fronts of shiprock buildings were real here in a jungle of stone that towered fully five stories.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Ermine's had been built as a private house, or so it appeared -- built for someone with a bottomless cardcase and a deep appreciation of pillars, arches, friezes, and cornices and the like; features he had previously seen only as fading designs painted on the otherwise stark fronts of shiprock buildings were real here in a jungle of stone that towered fully five stories.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • He was glad to catch Gerard's eye and withdraw as gracefully as he could; he was also glad that Gerard seemed perfectly cool and sober and had charge of the cardcase, dropping the necessary number of cards into the silver trays that the coloured butlers held out to receive them.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

  • "Of course he will say so before them," thought the Duchess, aloud, she says tapping him on the arm with her cardcase, "Come to my box at the Theatre to-night, I want to consult you about something, since dear Harold died," and a corner of her handkerchief went to her eyes,

    A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

  • Elinor rose, and going to her bag that was still dangling from the chair back where she had flung it in her hurried preparation for dinner, took out a cardcase, and drawing forth three square bits of gray cardboard, handed them to Patricia.

    Miss Pat at School Pemberton Ginther

  • He fished out a cardcase, and handed his card to Thompson.

    Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • There was a gold watch, for one thing, with a chain and locket; there was a silver pencil, and a matchbox, and a handful of small change, and finally a cardcase.

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • After further examination, they burned the cardcase and its contents, all but the bills, and likewise the picture of a little girl in the locket.

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • The family cardcase having done its duty the girls walked on, and Jo uttered another thanksgiving on reaching the fifth house, and being told that the young ladies were engaged.

    Little Women 1921

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