postcard
or post card
Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
Origin of postcard
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How to use postcard in a sentence
For 50 years, this city that once graced postcards has been a battlefield.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut not everyone likes the idea of sending digital postcards from the table.
They sent home postcards and photographs depicting what they were doing, which have been well documented.
‘Generation War’ Lets World War II Germans Off Too Easily | Jack Schwartz | January 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIconic works of art, generally reproduced on posters, postcards, and mugs, are now available in the size of a small bed of a nail.
A Picasso Manicure? The Rise of Fine-Art Nails. | Erin Cunningham | September 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBetween 1964 and 1995, Banks sent 108 letters and postcards to his brother.
Letter Writing in the Digital Age: Emails and Correspondence of Russell Banks & Others | Megan Barnard | October 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The tenants were glad to admit visitors as probable customers for postcards and photographs.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyWe understand that comic postcards may be differentiated from others by the word "Comic" plainly printed on the card.
He's a corker, wi' a face like yin o' they pented cupids that the lasses send to the young men on picture postcards.
The Underworld | James C. WelshAfter letters, postcards, etc., we prepared for further investigations of the great city.
From the Thames to the Tiber | J. WardleHere we stopped for a little while, we bought some postcards with views of the tunnel and of some of the scenery about here.
From the Thames to the Tiber | J. Wardle
British Dictionary definitions for postcard
/ (ˈpəʊstˌkɑːd) /
a card, often bearing a photograph, picture, etc, on one side, (picture postcard), for sending a message by post without an envelope: Also called (US): postal card
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