Meanings
plural visiting cards
- historicalA written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.
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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 […], →OCLCSynonyms: at-home card, calling card, name card, meishi, pasteboard
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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