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place card

[ pleys kahrd ]

noun

  1. a small card with the name of a guest on it, placed on the table, to indicate where the person should sit.


place card

noun

  1. a card placed on a dinner table before a seat, as at a formal dinner, indicating who is to sit there
“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 place card1

First recorded in 1920–25
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“Insert a place card into the top of a gorgeous red or golden pear, or hollow out a pumpkin and fill it with fresh florals for your centerpiece,” Gardner suggests.

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“The person in front of me posed for a picture, then grabbed a place card off a silver tray presented by a Marine in uniform.”

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“I turned and grinned, grabbed my place card and off I went.”

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The Times also reported that government officials had questions about whether Mr. Pence’s wife, Karen Pence, wrongly took two gold-toned place card holders from the prime minister of Singapore without paying for them.

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“We didn’t want any costume to say a particular time or place or moment, because all the Diana fans would know its historical place card,” says costume designer Jacqueline Durran.

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