postal card

noun

a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
postcard(def 1).

Origin of postal card

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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Examples from the Web for postal card

Historical Examples of postal card

After several days Trot received a postal-card from Button-Bright.
Sky Island
L. Frank Baum
A postal-card on which to send your address costs but one cent.
The Nursery, No. 103, July, 1875. Vol. XVIII.
Various
"Five thin ones, and a postal-card," said Stanton almost apologetically.
Molly Make-Believe
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Just one postal-card, and that you wrote with a blue pencil.
Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter
August 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 Character
Charles Dudley Warner

British Dictionary definitions for postal card

postal card

noun

US another term for postcard

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