What is "court cards"

Usage examples of "court cards".

I say, how soon at the appearance of these grand court cards, did those poor little neglected deuces sink down to the bottom of the pack.

Rearrange the sixteen court cards (including the aces) in a square so that in no row of four cards, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, shall be found two cards of the same suit or the same value.

The court cards are drawn to look like everyone in the Royal House of Merilon.

I dealt her 19 the first round, which sank everyone except D'Israeli, who had two court cards for 20.

Fifty numbered cards in all, plus twenty Court Cards and thirty Waldenses Triumphs&mdash.

Fifty numbered cards in all, plus twenty Court Cards and thirty Waldenses Triumphs—.

Their faces were hand-colored, the illustrations for the court cards crudely rendered.

At the bottom of the tray that held the court cards in spades, there was a Joker, and that was what I caused Abdullah to put down on the tray to top Gus's Ace.