card-basket

It is a breach of etiquette to examine a card-basket.

Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Sarah Annie Frost

The man at the door should have a silver tray or card-basket in which to receive the cards of visitors.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Meantime, to give one last discomfort to the "calling" system, the ubiquitous reporter presents himself, deliberately overturns the card-basket in the hall and notes the names there; and the lady of the house sees herself, her dress, her deportment and her guests photographed in the morning paper with startling distinctness.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

I dropped into a fauteuil near a centre-table, on which there was a fantastical silver-wrought card-basket.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

She sent Bettina for the card-basket in the lower hall.

The Lure of the Mask Harold MacGrath 1901

Which do you think would be the nicest to give him, Mr. Lawson -- this silver card-basket, or that Cupid vase, or --?

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

They even ate their suppers without indulging in any of the repulsive ways of which they had so large an assortment, and they did not surreptitiously remove from the table any fragments of bread and butter to leave on the piano, in the card-basket, and other places inappropriate to the reception of such varieties of abandoned property.

Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881

There is a saucer of rusty tacks on the tete-a - tete, and a besmeared bottle of balsam on the what-not, and an empty ink-bottle in the card-basket; while the marble top centre-table contains an album, a piece of dried soap, an elegant lithograph, one tack-hammer, a half-can of potash, a beautiful scriptural motto on cardboard, and ninety-seven dead flies.

They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ... 1877

This ingenious article itself, without the elegant domino-box, card-basket, etc., ought alone to give a high price to the lot.

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

This ingenious article itself, without the elegant domino-box, card-basket, &c., ought alone to give a high price to the lot.

Middlemarch 1871