playing-card

See also: playing card

English

Noun

playing-card (plural playing-cards)

  1. Dated form of playing card.
    • 1842 January 28, The Standard, number 5487, London, →OCLC, page [2], column 6:
      Among the best and the most tasteful of the productions thus embellished are some new playing-cards, printed by Mr. De La Rue, which, with extreme richness of ornaments, combine all that the most fastidious whist player could desire.
    • 1993 October 10, Paul Theroux, “China Inc.”, in The Observer Magazine, London, →OCLC, page 16, column 1:
      In a dusty shop of a small town in Guangdong I had bought some Mao playing-cards and some Mao cassettes.
    • 2012 December 1, Mary Portas, quoting Sarah Curran, “Shop! Mary Portas on Labour and Wait”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph (Magazine section)‎[1], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 December 2012, page 15, column 2:
      On my last visit I bought some lettered playing-cards lined up in a frame to spell out carpe diem.
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