court card

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards.
    — The King, his father, wearing a very white sports shirt open at the throat and a very black blazer, sat at a spacious desk whose highly polished surface twinned his upper half in reverse, making of him a kind of court card.
  2. A postcard measuring approximately 4·75″ × 3·5″, in use mainly circa 1894–1902. UK,historical

词形变化

court cards plural

词源

Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court.
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