Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A card containing a picture: usually intended for the instruction or amusement of children.
- noun A court card in a pack of cards.
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Examples
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The truth is that the picture-card, by doing the work of the duty letter, clears the way for the real letter, so spontaneous that it can't help being written; while the night-message contributes to epistolary art a terseness and vigor that should not be undervalued.
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They had with them a picture-card of the sixty-nine officers of the Gaeta army.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
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A little wooden rocker, another small, straight wooden chair, a hanging wall-pocket decorated with purple roses, a hanging bookshelf composed of three thin boards strung together with maroon picture cord, a violently colored picture-card of "Moses in the Bulrushes" framed in straws and red worsted, and bright-blue paper shades at the windows.
A Voice in the Wilderness Grace Livingston Hill 1906
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Isolde thought of the unhappy Tancred, hammered out as flat as a picture-card and hopelessly spoilt; of Conrad the Cocoanut head first in the mud, and Sickfried the Susceptible coiled up with agonies of sulphuric acid.
Nonsense Novels Stephen Leacock 1906
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Halliday broke the seal with his thumb-nail, and took out half a sheet of note-paper closely written on one side, wrapped about a small picture-card.
The Under Dog Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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Mr. Dawkins received these handsome compliments with much philosophy, and offered to cut any gentleman in company, for the first picture-card, at a shilling at a time.
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841
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Dawkins received these handsome compliments with much philosophy, and offered to cut any gentleman in company, for the first picture-card, at a shilling a time.
Oliver Twist 1838
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'Manga' group to hold audition for picture-card storytellers in Tokyo
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Walter Veltroni coming to resemble a beaming picture-card out of the schoolboys 'albums he made his name distributing with copies of
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'Manga' group to hold audition for picture-card storytellers in Tokyo
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