card assembly
card assembly noun: a social event, sometimes organized regularly, at which guests play card games.
Noun
card assembly (plural card assemblies)
- A social event, sometimes organized regularly, at which guests play card games.
- These preliminaries being adjusted, our hero forthwith repaired to a card assembly, which was frequented by some of the most notable gossips in town […]1751, Tobias Smollett, chapter 11, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, volume 3, London: Harrison, published 1781, page 310
- We shall cease to measure others satisfactions by our own standard, or think nothing desirable to them which we would not choose for ourselves; but shall discern a variety of tastes adapted to the several conditions wherein men are placed […] There is as much mirth in the kitchin as the parlour...1768, Abraham Tucker (as Edward Search), The Light of Nature Pursued, London: T. Jones, Volume 2, Part 1, Chapter 16, p. 244
Forms of card assembly
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Questions about card assembly
- What does card assembly mean?
- Card assembly means a social event, sometimes organized regularly, at which guests play card games.
- What part of speech is card assembly?
- Card assembly is a noun.
- What is the plural of card assembly?
- The plural of card assembly is card assemblies.
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