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Meanings of face card in inglés

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Playing card depicting a person; e.g. the king, queen, and jack in the 52-card French deck; knave, knight, queen, and king in the tarot deck.

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      Examples for "court card"
      Examples for "court card"
      1
      As earth of earth, she is the lowest court card of the lowest suit.
      Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot
      2
      Should there be no court card, the combination cannot be made (Rule III).
      Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience / New ...
      3
      Now, the daupbiness has precedence of her, and the court card-parties are held in her apartments.
      Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
      4
      They all drop to a court card.
      Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia
      5
      After a little hesitation, she said she could see black and red (thinking of the court card).
      Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
      1
      Following the picture card was played the ace of commercial importance.
      Waifs and Strays / Part 1
      2
      Then he carefully extracted the picture card.
      Shadows in the twilight
      3
      You can make a picture card.
      Mary Jane: Her Book
      4
      The recruiting officer will, if all goes well, send him a picture card of the Mount Royal, with this message.
      The new yorker
      5
      The two sides met picture card with picture card all the way until Dublin found an ace that Mayo couldn't match.
      The Irish Times
      Usage of face card in inglés
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      Suits all mixed, and not a face card or a pair in the lot.
      The Flying U's Last Stand
      2
      For every 10, face card, or ace that hits the table, subtract a point.
      Wired
      3
      There was not a single face card in her hand.
      The cardturner
      4
      Even when Lamar played irrationally, splitting a pair of fours when the dealer showed a face card, he won.
      Breathless
      5
      Any hand containing a face card or Ace above this average is a No-trumper, whenever it complies with the other above-mentioned requirements.
      Auction of To-day
      6
      So here he was with 4 cards: a face card, a 4, a 7, and a 2.
      Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever...
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      He can take a clean Methodist-Episcopal deck, deal three hands, and have every face card so it'll answer to its Christian name.
      Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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      The bet was three hundred pounds and a lot of face cards had been dealt.
      Rakes and radishes
      9
      Torin sighed and turned her facing cards down.
      The truth of valor
      10
      When the opportunities were good, like a deck full of face cards, Thorp would load the boat and get aggressive.
      The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
      11
      In blackjack, all face cards-kings ,queens ,andjacks-countas tens along with the four natural tens in every deck of fifty-two cards.
      The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
      12
      He looked over the Lay-Out and decided that it was just as easy to mingle with the Face Cards as to sleep in the Discards.
      Ade's Fables
      13
      When the dealer showed a king and the deck was full of face cards, Lamar split a pair of sevens "on a hunch," and lost.
      Breathless
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