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- noun Plural form of
calling-card .
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Examples
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Moo prints beautiful little calling-cards for kids and the young-at-heart.
Boing Boing: September 17, 2006 - September 23, 2006 Archives 2006
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A companion to Crafty Screenwriting with a particularly UK perspective is William Smethurt's Writing for Television, which offers a lot of assistance to writers crafting their calling-cards, and advice on how to get them out there.
Writing: Crafty TV Writing - Book Review Rogers 2006
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This just in: BellSouth isn't making money off of its payphones anymore -- between 1-800-COLLECT and cellular phones, the only people using payphones anymore are crack-dealers with stolen calling-cards.
Boing Boing: February 4, 2001 - February 10, 2001 Archives 2001
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Mrs. Smith hired a Chinese servant, and tried to teach him how to receive calling-cards.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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It is not customary for a bachelor to use "At Home" cards as a woman does, nor to invite his friends by writing a date and Music at four on his calling-cards in place of an invitation.
The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions Walter Cox Green
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And I tell you that these army officers and the bedizened women, with their wine and cigarettes, with their devil's calling-cards and their jewels, with their hell-lighted talk of the sacrilegious follies of socialism and art and horse-racing, O my brothers, it was all but a cloak for looking upon one another to lust after one another.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Then, a long mirror in a dull-red mahogany frame, and a table of mahogany so refined that no one would ever dream of using it for anything more useful than calling-cards.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Supremo, their airmen would pay inconvenient visits to the town, and from the clouds would drop their steel calling-cards on the King and
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And I tell you that these army officers and the bedizened women, with their wine and cigarettes, with their devil's calling-cards and their jewels, with their hell-lighted talk of the sacrilegious follies of socialism and art and horse-racing, O my brothers, it was all but a cloak for looking upon one another to lust after one another.
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Sometimes they were silly, and cracked inane and obvious jokes in ridicule of the grandest objects they had come so far to see; sometimes they were detestable and left their insignificant calling-cards or their unimportant names where nobody could ever have any object in reading them; sometimes they were pathetic and helpless and had to have assistance; sometimes they were amusing; hardly ever did they seem entirely human.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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