What is "pasteboards"

Usage examples of "pasteboards".

I delivered us from the vicissitudes by means of one of the Trumps of Doom, as I'd dubbed the odd pasteboards from Julia's apartment.

With his teeth, he tore open Cerise's card purse and quickly thumbed through the pasteboards, found what he wanted.

My unerring instincts led me right to a batch of them, who were holed up in the men's room of the bus station, playing a game with which I was not entirely unfamiliar, as it consisted of fifty-two pasteboards with numbers or pictures on ’em and enough money in the pot to make it interesting.

Still, mathematics is a universal language, and I soon replenished our coffers in a series of friendly little contests involving pasteboards and various combinations of the number Twenty-One.

But I've never made a living with the pasteboards, nor had a hankering to.