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Definition of Cardplayer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardplayer
Literary usage of Cardplayer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"... place has b by Rembrandt's mother—2W. ; and a of ' The cardplayer ' (20Z.)
Of I Dürers the best is a good ..."
2. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy by William Paley (1835)
"... whatever suspends the occupation of the cardplayer distresses him ; whereas
to the laborer every interruption is a refreshment: and this appears in the ..."
3. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"If I lost it itself, it was through the crosses I met with and I going through
the world. I never was a rambler and a cardplayer like yourself, ..."
4. The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener (1899)
"... the journalist, the preacher, the cardplayer, the lawyer, the hypocrite, the
old general, the speculator, the lady of the world, the gambler at races, ..."
5. The Table Book by William Hone (1828)
"ON A LADY, A GREAT cardplayer, WHO MARRIED A GARDENER. Trumps ever ruled the
charming maid, Sure all the world must pardon her, The Destinies ..."
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