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court card

noun

  1. (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit US equivalentface card
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of court card1

C17: altered from earlier coat-card, from the decorative coats worn by the figures depicted
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Each suit would have had 13 cards, including three all-male court cards: the King, the Lieutenant, and the Second Lieutenant.

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Just like in a regular deck of cards, each suit has face or court cards — usually called king, queen, page and knight.

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The minor arcana is similar to a standard deck of playing cards, separated into four suits containing 10 numbered cards and four court cards.

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There was one other student but I quickly ascertained that he was only at the meeting to get his court card signed.

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If these four court cards be four knaves, the hand is below the average; if four kings, or two kings, two queens, and a knave, it is about the average.

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