card assembly

Noun

 * 1)  A social event, sometimes organized regularly, at which guests play card games.
 * 2) * 1768, (as Edward Search), The Light of Nature Pursued, London: T. Jones, Volume2, Part1, Chapter16, p.244,
 * We shall cease to measure others satisfactions by our own standard, or think nothing desirable to them which we would not choose for ourselves; but shall discern a variety of tastes adapted to the several conditions wherein men are placed There is as much mirth in the kitchin as the parlour, and as great diversion in a country fair or a cricket match as a card assembly or a ridotto.
 * We shall cease to measure others satisfactions by our own standard, or think nothing desirable to them which we would not choose for ourselves; but shall discern a variety of tastes adapted to the several conditions wherein men are placed There is as much mirth in the kitchin as the parlour, and as great diversion in a country fair or a cricket match as a card assembly or a ridotto.