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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A photographic likeness mounted on a card, formerly of the size of a visiting-card. Also called card-picture and card.
Wiktionary
- n. A business card
- n. dated A visiting card
- n. obsolete A photograph of a famous person, the same size as a visiting card
GNU Webster's 1913
- A visiting card.
- A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French carte de visite ("visiting card") (Wiktionary)
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