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card-room

card-room

See also: cardroom

English

Noun

card-room (plural card-rooms)

  1. A room set aside for playing card games in.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
      I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields [] . And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, [] . My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.