cardplayer

American  

[kahrd-pley-er] / ˈkɑrdˌpleɪ ər /

noun

1. a person who plays cards. card.

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Etymology

Origin of cardplayer

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.

From Golf Digest

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

From New York Times

“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.

From The New Yorker

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.

From New York Times

Hunt, who once made a living as a cardplayer.

From Time Magazine Archive