Definition of Cardhouse

1. Noun. An unstable construction with playing cards. "He built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"

Exact synonyms: Card-house, Cardcastle, House Of Cards
Generic synonyms: Construction, Structure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardhouse

cardcastle
cardecu
cardecue
cardecues
cardecus
carded
cardenolide
cardenolides
carder
carders
cardgame
cardgames
cardholder
cardholders
cardholding
cardhouse (current term)
cardi
cardia
cardiac
cardiac accident
cardiac albuminuria
cardiac alternation
cardiac arrest
cardiac arrests
cardiac arrhythmia
cardiac asthma
cardiac ballet
cardiac blood pool imaging
cardiac care facilities

Literary usage of Cardhouse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... and, beginning at one extreme of the line, break rapidly to the other, as a long cardhouse falls when the children knock down the cards at one end. ..."

2. The Tombs of the Popes: Landmarks in Papal History by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1903)
""That adventurer in the mask of Washington has conquered, and boldly builds up the great cardhouse of his lies before the eyes of Europe, without Truth ..."

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