Meanings
- A small printed card which introduces the bearer, identified by another person who recommends that bearer.
Marius There's a lady, sir, asking to see you. Domin A lady? Who is she? Marius I don't know, sir. She brings this card of introduction. Domin [Reads the card]: Ah, from President Glory. Ask her to come in.
c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1Synonyms: introductory card
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA small printed card which introduces the bearer, identified by another person who recommends that bearer.
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