visiting card

Origin of visiting card

First recorded in 1775–85

But Miss Macks's mother had never possessed a visiting-card in her life.

The Front Yard |Constance Fenimore Woolson
The woman approached her, and presented a visiting-card; bearing on it the name of Sir Jervis Redwood.

I Say No |Wilkie Collins
He had on a silver collar, engraved with his name and surname, which offered itself for introduction like a visiting-card.

Literature and Life |William Dean Howells
The priest pulled a visiting-card from his pocket and held it up in the faint glow of his cigar; it was scrawled with green ink.

The Innocence of Father Brown |G. K. Chesterton

If the letters had failed to impress him, Green felt certain that his visiting-card would be of little use.

The Grell Mystery |Frank Froest

visiting card

another term for calling card