What is "place cards"

Usage examples of "place cards".

Downstairs, wading through sandals, daggers, laurel wreaths, fallen fig-leaves, place cards, cigarette ends, condoms and burst balloons, Lysander breathed in a stench of sex, stale tobacco and half-full glasses.

I asked Mom if I could make place cards this year because everyone always stands around at Thanksgiving waiting to be told where to sit.

Ignoring the discreet place cards, he seated Angelique so that he would occupy the empty chair next to Bliss.

Soon thereafter, Machida called the room to order, and the men, peering at the place cards, worked then- way to their assigned seats.

Once it had held place cards for four election-board workers from the warehouse district, who now buzzed from table to table angrily.

This impression was confirmed when I saw that the tables all had place cards at them.

The theorem to be proved is that if any even number of people take seats at random around a circular table bearing place cards with their names, it is always possible to rotate the table until at least two people are opposite their cards.

It was a round table, purposefully chosen for the occasion, with place cards written in black calligraphy for each principal.