cardplayer

[kahrd-pley-er]

noun

1. a person who plays cards. card.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cardplayer¹

First recorded in 1580–90; card ¹ + player

Example Sentences

As a cardplayer, Kijek was a scratch, a legend at gin but even more partial to “pitch,” the working man’s rhapsody of high, low, jack and game.

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The day of their first meeting, rendered as a cardplayer might do it —11/1/11— was exceptionally auspicious.

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He was a fisherman and a hunter, a cardplayer and a theater-lover, a frequenter of pubs and a successful businessman.

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“Really?” she said, not paying her full attention because the cardplayer was sending her his look, which was one not of supplication but of command.

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The similarities between this Cézanne watercolor and the canvas in the Musée d’Orsay are striking: the pale greenish-yellow in the cardplayer’s coat; his black-and-gray trousers; the red and yellow on the tabletop; the reddish and gray tints in his crumpled hat.

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