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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corruption of coat-card (which see).
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- noun card games The higher-
value “face ”cards in adeck ofplaying cards ; in an ordinary 52-card deck, namely any one of thejacks (a.k.a. knaves ),queens , orkings . - noun chiefly UK, historical, deltiology A
postcard measuringapproximately 4·75″ × 3·5″, in use mainly in theUnited Kingdom circa 1894–1902.
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- noun one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face
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sionnach commented on the word court card
a gay fluttering coxcomb
July 18, 2009