Sentence examples for maid card from inspiring English sources

It takes its name from a 19th-century specially illustrated deck of cards showing colourful characters in matching pairs, plus a single old maid card.

In this version, the person who is left holding the "Old Maid" card is declared the winner[1].

For example, an English variation on this game is "Scabby Queen" where the person who finishes the game with the 'old maid' card draws a card from the deck and has their knuckles scraped by the deck according to the value of the card.

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Old maid, simple card game popular with young children.

Patients in this situation are called "Old maids" (from the card game), since everybody wants to get rid of them.

Laurel asked if the maid had a green card, and she and Evan exploded into a fight about whether or not Evan had raped the maid.

Jack - the gayest man in America, who, as viewers will recall, married Karen's maid, Rosario, for green card reasons - is being asked for a divorce.

Bache related that when he called on Davison and handed in his card, the maid returned and told him, "Please, sir, Mr. Davison says that he is not at home".

"Etiquette" takes it for granted that its readers are the kind of people who employ butlers and ladies' maids — "it is seldom practical for a debutante and her mother to share a maid" — who leave visiting cards, and keep "dinner lists," and have one set of stationery for their city addresses and another set for their country homes.

The maids have pass cards for an entire floor, which are changed every day.