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dance card

noun
/ˈdɑːns kɑːd/UK/ˈdæns ˌkɑɹd/US

Etymology

From dance + card (“flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, etc.; list of scheduled events, etc.”).

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻
  2. derived from carō
  3. derived from *carito✻
  4. derived from carda
  5. derived from carde
  6. inherited from carde
  7. compounded as dance card — “dance + card”

Definitions

  1. An appointment schedule.

    • My dance card is full this week. What about meeting next week?
    • I won't be leaving this room, Leo. And you're the only name on my dance card, sweetheart. Thanks for lunch.
    • Next on her [Ellie Kendrick's] rapidly filling dance card is 'An Education', a Nick Hornby-scripted movie co-starring fellow rising star Carey Mulligan.

  2. A list of items.

    • [Quentin] Tarantino went on: "I never follow the normal dance card that the genre or the subgenres I deal in usually play by. […] I want it to become something bigger and more expansive than that given subgenre."
    • [T]he dance card of companies spying on you while you are online is chocker already.
    • And yet, given how the carnage unfolded, a surprising number of named characters survived. There are still a few unknowns, but the survey of who was left standing as the episode drew to a close was an awfully full dance card.

  3. A card on which a person (usually a woman) lists those with whom they have agreed to…

    A card on which a person (usually a woman) lists those with whom they have agreed to dance.

    • How could your dance card be full already, Martha? You just got here.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA