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  • noun The playing of card games.

Etymologies

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card +‎ playing

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Examples

  • My mother was the daughter of a strict Baptist matriarch who barred dancing, dating, and cardplaying, and she must have viewed her marriage to my theatrically inclined father as an exciting alternative to small-town life.

    Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007

  • By night, he stalks the streets of his city combatting adultery, fornication, gambling, cardplaying, excessive display, revealing costumes and religious deviation as THE GENEVA GUARDIAN!

    JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #208 DC COMICS, 1982 David Campbell 2006

  • One of the most common and popular leisure activities of adults was cardplaying….

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • One of the most common and popular leisure activities of adults was cardplaying….

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • One of the most common and popular leisure activities of adults was cardplaying….

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • One of the most common and popular leisure activities of adults was cardplaying….

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Look here, let us go to the restaurant instead, there is cardplaying going on there ...

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • My intention at first was that he should be robbed, but then I saw robbery would take too much sympathy from my young lad, and I decided the money should be won by the lesser sin of cardplaying, but still behind the scenes.

    New Irish Comedies Lady Gregory 1892

  • And it's kind father for you robbing me, where it's often you robbed your own mother, and you stealing away to go cardplaying the half crowns she had hid in the churn.

    Three Wonder Plays Lady Gregory 1892

  • This place is a great deal more dissipated in the vacation than in the session and the night I came they were all of them intoxicated in some degree, which, together with cardplaying constituted the principal amusement.

    Letter from James Johnston Pettigrew to Ebenezer Pettigrew, January 13, 1844 1844

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