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postcard

Card with space for a written message that can be sent through the mail without an envelope. The postcard's inventor was Emmanual Hermann, of Vienna, who in 1869 proposed a ‘postal telegram’, sent at a lower fee than a normal letter with an envelope. The first picture postcard was produced in 1894.



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As they came south, Helen retreated over the Brenner, and wrote an unsatisfactory postcard from the shores of the Lake of Garda, saying that her plans were uncertain and had better be ignored.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
Mildred sent him a postcard to announce her safe arrival, and he snatched half an hour every day to write a long letter to her.
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It was this figure that her husband saw when, having reached the polished Sphinx, having entangled himself with a man selling picture postcards, he turned; the stanza instantly stopped.
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