Sentence examples for cigarette card from inspiring English sources
noun
A small card given free with a pack of cigarettes, bearing text and a picture. They were issued as sets dealing with selected themes, and are now collectors' items.
"There was a lasting and valorous chivalry in the craft-versed cigarette card heroes of our youth.
In response to strong demand this set of 25 cards was recently reprinted, and it is now available by mail-order from the London Cigarette Card Company.
There is something delightfully old fashioned about him, the sort of cricketer whose portrait might once have been on a cigarette card.
He had been a clerk; crosswords were his hobby and a little angling: simple card-games and a cigarette card collection.
Money seems hardly an issue in any of the books, and fame still means a cigarette card rather than a social media strategy.
"Tricky finding a picture of George Pope – all I could get was a tiny little photo of a cigarette card someone flogged on eBay a while ago.
For a while, I collected cigarette cards.
Several sell baseball memorabilia, such as vintage cigarette cards and valuable autographs.
His own writings included hundreds of articles for the press, BBC talks, books on theatregoing and collecting cigarette cards.
The N.Y.P.L. owns a repository of over sixty million items, including not only books, but scripts, music, pamphlets, menus, cigarette cards, and even (as Macy noted on Wednesday) hair.
It is as if these chaps are going into the hairdressers with 1950s cigarette cards of famous footballers, saying "That's what I want".
