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visiting card en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (historical) A written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.
    • On the 19th of May we are a maiden castle no longer. Black coats and hats ring at the bell, and pass in and out of the different apartments. The hall table is sprinkled with letters, visiting-cards, and programmes which seem to have had the alphabet shaken out upon them, for they bear the names of professors, doctors, reverends, and very reverends, and fairly bristle with A. M.'s, M. A.'s, A. B.'s, D. D.'s, and LL. D.'s. 1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 8, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

Forms

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visiting cards Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

name card · business card

Synonyms

name card (card with personal contact information) · calling card (card with personal contact information) · meishi (card with personal contact information) · at-home card (card with personal contact information) · pasteboard (card with personal contact information)