card house
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.96 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of cardhouse.
noun
Alternative form of cardhouse.
Example Sentences
- "So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes."
- "And if you look carefully at the card house, you will see that top two cards are aces of clubs."
- "Place two of them together on top of the card case as shown in Figure 30 to form the walls of the card house."
- "Where did that come from, he thinks. Ah, We're the card house now. There's never a situation where one card is threatened, the others left in peace; they're all threatened together and at once."
- "He owned a goulash or card house, on upper Broadway, where I got many laughs."
- "Feeling surer of his bearings, once he'd strode down to the creek and back again, Longarm quietly entered the noisy card house, drifted to the bar, and ordered a schooner of suds to nurse as he lounged there with one boot on the brass rail and the brim of his Stetson shading his tanned face from the coal-oil lamp right above him."