visiting card

American  

noun

1. calling card.

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visiting card British  

noun

1. another term for calling card

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Etymology

Origin of visiting card

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

Cars were exotic playthings; telephones hadn’t supplanted visiting cards; electric light was a harsher alternative to candles.

From The Guardian

"My job was typical of co-operation between an IT company and any subcontractor: you are set a task, for example, to create a website, a visiting card, a web page."

From BBC

As tradition demands, he handed the first mug to Bavarian governor Markus Soeder, who declared that “the Oktoberfest is perhaps Bavaria’s biggest and best visiting card in the world.”

From Seattle Times

And that wasn’t all: His visiting cards, cigar case and even the handle of his cane had “slightly oblique inclinations.”

From New York Times

“The title is not used by the person on visiting cards, letterhead, or when signing, nor does one say it when introducing him- or herself.”

From Washington Post