postal card
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noun
a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
Origin of postal card
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Historical Examples of postal card
After several days Trot received a postal-card from Button-Bright.
Sky IslandL. Frank Baum
A postal-card on which to send your address costs but one cent.
"Five thin ones, and a postal-card," said Stanton almost apologetically.
Molly Make-BelieveEleanor Hallowell Abbott
Just one postal-card, and that you wrote with a blue pencil.
Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; EasterAugust Strindberg
I was absent from home at the last, but heard by daily postal-card of his failing condition; and never again saw him alive.
Summer in a Garden, and Calvin, A Study Of CharacterCharles Dudley Warner
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