place card

[ pleys-kahrd ]

noun
  1. a small card with the name of a guest on it, placed on the table, to indicate where the person should sit.

Origin of place card

1
First recorded in 1920–25

Words Nearby place card

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How to use place card in a sentence

  • A painted place card, a small bonbon box, a single flower with a pin for fastening it on,—all these have their place at times.

  • Nothing other than a crest must ever be engraved on a place card; and usually they are plain, even in the houses of old families.

    Etiquette | Emily Post
  • Take a clover leaf and practice painting from it until able to make a copy good enough to paint upon a place card for the table.

  • Having found and pressed four-leaved clovers in the days of summer, paste one lightly to each place card as symbol of good-luck.

  • When the guests strolled in Bernice found her place-card with a slight feeling of irritation.

    Flappers and Philosophers | F. Scott Fitzgerald

British Dictionary definitions for place card

place card

noun
  1. a card placed on a dinner table before a seat, as at a formal dinner, indicating who is to sit there

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