The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cartes de visite
Carte de visite \Carte" de vi*site`\, pl. Cartes de visite.
A visiting card.
A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
Usage examples of "cartes de visite".
She had dipped her hand into the shoe box again and taken out the cartes de visite-old photographs on cardboard from the last decades of the old century.
I said in my most solemn voice as I pocketed one of her cartes de visite.