英语词汇“court、card”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

court-card

释义

ˈcourt-card
[An alteration of the earlier name coat-card, q.v. (readily suggested by the personages represented on these cards): see also card n.² 1.]
1. A playing card bearing the figure of a king, queen, or knave; a picture-card.
1641Milton Reform. Wks. 1738 I. 18 To blow them down like a past-board House built of Court-Cards.1650Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) 192 If a Presbiterian or Scotch court card were trumpe.1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 187 When all the court-cards get together, and are acted by one mind, the game is usually turned accordingly.1816Singer Hist. Cards 49, 55. 1851 Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. xv, Whom he took with him wherever he went, like a poor old limp court-card.
2. fig. Obs. slang and dial. [Cf. card n.² 2 c.]
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Court-card, a gay fluttering Fellow.1725in New Cant. Dict.1877E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Court-card, ‘He's gotten to be a court-card noo’ is said of some one who has risen very much in social position.

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