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

The class, which had both blacks and whites in it, exchanged visiting cards.

From Literature

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

From The Guardian

There was note-paper also in the drawer, thick white sheets, for rough writing, and the note-paper of the house, with the crest, and the address, and visiting cards, ivory-white, in little boxes.

From Literature

"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