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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA playing card. · Any game using playing cards; a card game. · A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.) · Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of carte and chart.
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