card-room

noun

A room set aside for playing card games in.

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Meanings

nouncard-room (plural card-rooms)

plural card-rooms

  1. A room set aside for playing card games in.
    1 more example

    I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

    1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

Origin

From card + room.

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“card-room.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/card-room. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “card-room,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/card-room.

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