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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A corruption of coat-card (which see).

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  • noun card games The higher-valuefacecards in a deck of playing cards; in an ordinary 52-card deck, namely any one of the jacks (a.k.a. knaves), queens, or kings.
  • noun chiefly UK, historical, deltiology A postcard measuring approximately 4·75 × 3·5″, in use mainly in the United Kingdom circa 1894–1902.

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  • noun one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face

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