cardhouse
Collocations
2PREP.
down
ADV.
then
Definitions
noun
A business establishment that hosts card-playing, especially one where patrons play poker.
"Twas first to the cardhouse and then down to Maisie's," intoned that mournful ballad "The Cowboy's Lament." But most real-life trail riders went first to the bathtub and then to the haberdasher, if only because neither Maisie nor the cardhouse would truly welcome a man so long as he had the look and smell of a summer in the saddle.
He spends six nights a week at the cardhouse.
A structure of plate-like mineral deposits that rest on each other's edges.
He also expressed the opinion that certain sensitive clays derived their properties from the fact that the flaky minerals were arranged in an unstable “cardhouse” fabric.
The microstructures do not appear to conform entirely to either cardhouse or honeycomb structures.
Synonym of house of cards (any sense).
The photographer glanced up at them over a four-storeyed cardhouse, which he had built out of crispbread.
On the other hand (and perhaps incompatibly) he was thought to be dangerously addicted to speculation: 'an inveterate theorist, an intellectual cardhouse builder'.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — an unstable construction with playing cards
- card-house
- cardcastle
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3"Twas first to the cardhouse and then down to Maisie's," intoned that mournful ballad "The Cowboy's Lament." But most real-life trail riders went first to the bathtub and then to the haberdasher, if o
WiktionaryHe spends six nights a week at the cardhouse.
WiktionaryCaro's Law of Tells One of the first experts to describe Stage 3—poker players as actors—was Mike Caro, a specialist in draw poker as played in the cardhouses of Gardena, California.
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