Crossword clues for postcard
postcard
- Contest entry, perhaps
- Deltiologist's purchase
- Mail that isn't opened
- Tourist purchase
- A card for sending messages by post without an envelope
- "Wish you were here" medium
- One-sided view from a correspondent?
- One describes trip to station with wit
- One bearing message whose view is one-sided?
- Position taken by funny guy in short communication
- Petty officer’s time with Jack maybe? Write home about it on this?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postal \Post"al\, a. [Cf. F. postal.] Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.
Postal card, or Post card, a card used for transmission of messages through the mails, at a lower rate of postage than a sealed letter; also called postcard. Such cards are sold by the government with postage already paid, or by private vendors without a postage stamp. The message is written on one side of the card, and the address on the other.
Postal money order. See Money order, under Money.
Postal note, an order payable to bearer, for a sum of money (in the United States less than five dollars under existing law), issued from one post office and payable at another specified office.
Postal Union, a union for postal purposes entered into by the most important powers, or governments, which have agreed to transport mail matter through their several territories at a stipulated rate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended to be written on and mailed without an envelope. In the case of a picture postcard one side carries a picture or photograph.
WordNet
n. a card for sending messages by post without an envelope [syn: post card, postal card, mailing-card]
Wikipedia
is a 2010 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo. It was Shindo's last film. The film is set during and after the Second World War, and it deals with the effect on families of the death of soldiers. It is loosely based on director Shindo's wartime experiences.
"Postcard" is the first single from Grace for Drowning, the second solo studio album, by British rock musician Steven Wilson. It was released digitally on October 10, 2011. The single includes the album version, a live piano/vocal version, a remix by Scottish new prog group North Atlantic Oscillation, and a remix of another track from the same album, "Index".
A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. Shapes other than rectangular may also be used. There are novelty exceptions, such as wood postcards, made of thin wood, and copper postcards sold in the Copper Country of the U.S. state of Michigan, and coconut "postcards" from tropical islands.
In some places, one can send a postcard for a lower fee than for a letter. Stamp collectors distinguish between postcards (which require a stamp) and postal cards (which have the postage pre-printed on them). While a postcard is usually printed by a private company, individual or organization, a postal card is issued by the relevant postal authority.
The world's oldest postcard was sent in 1840 to the writer Theodore Hook from Fulham in London, England. The study and collecting of postcards is termed deltiology.
A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.
Postcard may also refer to:
- POST card, a computer diagnostic tool
- Postcard (film), a 2010 Japanese film
- The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, a 1980 book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida
- The Postcard (little magazine), a Bengali little magazine
In music:
- Postcard (Mary Hopkin album), also known as Post Card
- Postcard Records, a Scottish record label
- "Postcard" (song), a 2011 song by Steven Wilson from Grace for Drowning
- "The Postcard" (song), a song by Boris Grebenshchikov from Radio Silence
- "Postcard", a 2003 song by the Huntingtons from Self-titled Album
"Postcard" is a song by the Who, written by the band's bassist John Entwistle. It appears on the Who's album Odds & Sods.
Released as a single, in the United States, it reached the Cash Box charts on November 23, 1974, peaking at No. 64. It was the first song written by Entwistle that was released as the A-side of a Who single.
John Entwistle said about the album:
"We thought we'd just have a go at some of these bootlegs. They release really bad bootlegs of these songs all the time. I've heard three of them which were made in the States and they're really bad quality. They obviously will last only about three plays before the acetate disintegrates. We thought it was about time we released a bootleg of our own. I tried to arrange it like a parallel sort of Who career -- what singles we might have released and what album tracks we might have released."
Pete Townshend said about the song:
"'Postcard is a John Entwistle song about touring on the road. He describes in luscious detail the joys and delights of such romantic venues as Australia (pause to fight off temporary attack of nausea), America (pause to count the money) and, of course, that country of the mysterious and doubting customs official, Germany (pause, whether they like it or not, for ' God Save The Queen'). Listen out for the field sound effects ACTUALLY RECORDED IN THE COUNTRIES WE TOURED. 'Postcard' was originally recorded in my house for a maxi single. They were EPs that only cost as much as a single. Ours unfortunately never got released. I engineered this one with one hand on the controls and the other on the guitar. That's why I only play one chord throughout the whole song."
The Who FAQ author Mike Segretto describes it as "a fun travelogue of the Who's roadwork, penned with the droll wit we've come to expect from John Entwistle." The lyrics tell the various countries the band had visited on tour. Chris Charlesworth describes the song as having an "up tempo rock rhythm."
"Postcard" was originally recorded for potential release on a maxi single in 1970, but that version only ended up being released in Japan. For the version released on Odds & Sods, Entwistle remixed the song and recorded a new bass guitar part.
Postcard, known as Post Card, is the debut album by Mary Hopkin. It was produced by Paul McCartney and released by Apple Records in February 1969 in the UK and in March 1969 in the US. It reached number 3 in the UK and number 28 in the US. It also reached number 26 in Canada. The original US version differed from the UK version by including the hit single " Those Were the Days" instead of a cover of " Someone to Watch Over Me". The album included three songs written by the folk singer Donovan, one of which, " Lord of the Reedy River", was deemed to be one of the album highlights by AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger. Rolling Stone critic John Mendelsohn regarded Hopkin's voice as being well-suited to the Donovan songs, although he considered the songs themselves to be "ponderous and over-long". Unterberger felt that the only problem with the album was that it contained too many pre-rock standards, in accordance with McCartney's tastes, which were not as well suited to Hopkin as more simple folk songs. Mendelsohn praised McCartney's production as much as Hopkins' singing.
The 2010 CD reissue includes both "Those Were the Days" and "Someone to Watch Over Me", as well as four bonus tracks including " Turn! Turn! Turn!", which was the B-side of "Those Were the Days", and Hopkin's second single " Goodbye", written by McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney, plus five versions in Italian, Spanish, German and French of "Those Were The Days" as a digital download.
Usage examples of "postcard".
Bunzie had protested that they were in a hurry, and off they went, promising him postcards and autographed paperbacks upon their return.
Van Buskirk of Montreal exotic reflective glasswares and glass-blowing hardware and broom and ordnance and survivalist cookware and hip postcards and black-lather gag soap and cheesy old low-demand InterLace 3rd-Grid cartridges and hand-buzzers and fraudulent but seductive X-ray spectacles and they were sent through the remains of Provincial Autoroute 557 U.
And when blurbs to that effect became available from other authors and critics, Little, Brown put them on postcards and dispatched another series of three.
Nevertheless it was still possible for Brother Longo to make out rows of snapshots, postcards, newspaper clippings: the record of a vanished world.
Officer Cooper had mentioned that the postmistress had an idea about postcards.
Her parents, rich once more, had first decided to start living in strict Russian style which they somehow associated with ornamental Slavic scriptory, postcards depicting sorrowing boyar maidens, varnished boxes bearing gaudy pyrogravures of troikas or firebirds, and the admirably produced, long since expired art magazines containing such wonderful photographs of old Russian manors and porcelain.
And at that very minute our slavey, little Ethelbertina, knocked at my bedroom door and gave me a postcard.
SAVAGE tore the illustration from the paper, inserted it into the stereopticon, which was somewhat like the postcard projecting type popular a few years ago.
It was just a postcard from Ahmedabad, where the Great Royal was performing, but the thought was what mattered to Dr Daruwalla.
Enormous topographical closeups of the various Sovereign Republics, wrinkled mountain ranges, satellite images of rivers, the Black Sea and Crimea, postcards from tourist spots and exotic cities: Samarkand, Bukhara, Vladivostok, Yerevan, Minsk, Kazan, Gorky, Arkhangelsk, even Moscow.
They, of course, were not the ones who had given that thundering market its bad reputation but more recent peddlers who made illegal sales of all kinds of questionable merchandise smuggled in on European ships, from obscene postcards and aphrodisiac ointments to the famous Catalonian condoms with iguana crests that fluttered when circumstances required or with flowers at the tip that would open their petals at the will of the user.
A lunchbox decoupaged in flea market postcards of fin de siecle aristocracy was the Amelia Ramos.
There were a couple racks of postcards, film, instant cameras, bare necessity fishing supplies at outrageous prices, Minne-tonka moccasins, rubber tomahawks for the kids, risk-kay joke gifts built around gags older than my Uncle Phil, Indian turquoise jewelry made in the Philippines.
Jonnie and Katie sent postcards home to their mother, then went with Iris and Doris to buy a present for her at the huge Galeries Lafayette the venerable Paris department store.
Three narrow aisles extend to the left of the door, offering the usual roadside merchandise: every imaginable snack food, the basic patent medicines, magazines, paperback books, postcards, novelty items designed to hang from rearview mirrors, and selected canned goods that sell to campers and to people, like Vess, who travel in homes on wheels.