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- Dictionaryface card/ˈfeɪs kɑːd/
noun
- 1. a playing card that is a king, queen, or jack of a suit; a court card. North American
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Playing card depicting a person; e.g. the king, queen, and jack in the 52-card French deck; knave, knight, queen, and king in the tarot deck
In a deck of playing cards, the term face card or court card, and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. In a standard 52-card pack of the English pattern, these cards are the King, Queen and Jack. The term picture card is also common, but that term sometimes includes the Aces. After the American innovation of corner-indices, the ... Wikipedia
