Card house

"Twas first to the cardhouse and then down to Maisie's," intoned that mournful ballad "The Cowboy's Lament." But most real-life trail riders went first to the bathtub and then to the haberdasher, if only because neither Maisie nor the cardhouse would truly welcome a man so long as he had the look and smell of a summer in the saddle.

He spends six nights a week at the cardhouse.

Caro's Law of Tells One of the first experts to describe Stage 3—poker players as actors—was Mike Caro, a specialist in draw poker as played in the cardhouses of Gardena, California.

He also expressed the opinion that certain sensitive clays derived their properties from the fact that the flaky minerals were arranged in an unstable “cardhouse” fabric.

The microstructures do not appear to conform entirely to either cardhouse or honeycomb structures.

The Champlain clays are believed to have a somewhat special arrangement of the individual soil particles such that the plate-like particles are oriented to each other in an edge to face arrangement in the undisturbed condition, i.e. "cardhouse" structure.

The photographer glanced up at them over a four-storeyed cardhouse, which he had built out of crispbread.

On the other hand (and perhaps incompatibly) he was thought to be dangerously addicted to speculation: 'an inveterate theorist, an intellectual cardhouse builder'.