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n. One of the 52 playing cards from a standard pack as used for bridge and poker, with a picture of a queen, with a nominal value of 12, and with the diamonds suit.
Wikipedia
The queen of diamonds is one of the 52 cards in a standard deck of cards.
Queen of Diamonds may also refer to:
- nickname of Mabel Boll (1893-1923), American socialite noted for wearing a great deal of valuable jewelry
- Karyssia: Queen of Diamonds, a 1987 fantasy-themed, text-based graphic adventure game
- the title villain of " Marsha, Queen of Diamonds", a Batman TV series episode, played by Carolyn Jones
- "Queen of Diamonds", an episode of the American TV western series Laramie
- "The Queen of Diamonds", a story arc in Pep Comics anthology issues 1-12
Usage examples of "queen of diamonds".
She saw the queen of diamonds with her throat wounded by the steel of the jack of spades, and she deduced that Fernanda was trying to get her husband back home by means of the discredited method of sticking pins into his picture but that she had brought on an internal tumor because of her clumsy knowledge of the black arts.
A land where a heartless king and a queen of diamonds struggled for the single throne.
In fact he would certainly have done so, had not Ruby unearthed some old pantomime paste jewels she had worn at a fancy dress party as the Queen of Diamonds.
In fact he would certainly have done so, had not Ruby unearthed some old pantomime paste jewels she had worn at a fancy-dress party as the Queen of Diamonds.
The queen of diamonds pirouetted gracefully before him until Tobin reached out and stilled her dance.