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visiting cards

visiting cards is the plural of visiting card.

Meaning of visiting card

Noun

visiting card (plural visiting cards)

  1. (historical) A written card which identifies the bearer, presented for introduction when attending a business meeting or formal social gathering.
    • On the 19th of May we are a maiden castle no longer. Black coats and hats ring at the bell, and pass in and out of the different apartments. The hall table is sprinkled with letters, visiting-cards, and programmes which seem to have had the alphabet shaken out upon them, for they bear the names of...1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 8, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC

Questions about visiting cards

What is visiting cards the plural of?
Visiting cards is the plural of visiting card.

Words near visiting cards in the dictionary

  1. visiting
  2. visiting a spell
  3. visiting ant
  4. visiting ants
  5. visiting card
  6. visiting cards
  7. visiting fellow
  8. visiting fellows
  9. visiting lecturer
  10. visiting lecturers
  11. visiting professor

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