visiting card

American  

noun

1. calling card.

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visiting card British  

noun

1. another term for calling card

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Etymology

Origin of visiting card

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

"We can't rule out that the occupiers will 'accidentally' find some characteristic 'insignia', 'visiting card' or even 'DNA'."

From Reuters

Cars were exotic playthings; telephones hadn’t supplanted visiting cards; electric light was a harsher alternative to candles.

From The Guardian

"My job was typical of co-operation between an IT company and any subcontractor: you are set a task, for example, to create a website, a visiting card, a web page."

From BBC

This exhibition stars four popular period dolls, some with their own toothbrushes, visiting cards and sheet music.

From New York Times

As tradition demands, he handed the first mug to Bavarian governor Markus Soeder, who declared that “the Oktoberfest is perhaps Bavaria’s biggest and best visiting card in the world.”

From Seattle Times