"card house" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby",
          "text": "So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.",
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          "ref": "2006, D. B. Smithee, The Dog Poker Code, page 26",
          "text": "And if you look carefully at the card house, you will see that top two cards are aces of clubs.",
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          "ref": "2009, Karl Fulves, Foolproof Card Tricks for the Amateur Magician, page 71",
          "text": "Place two of them together on top of the card case as shown in Figure 30 to form the walls of the card house.",
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          "ref": "2013, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Gold Coast: Three Californias, page 306",
          "text": "Where did that come from, he thinks. Ah, We're the card house now. There's never a situation where one card is threatened, the others left in peace; they're all threatened together and at once.",
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          "ref": "1956, Across the Board, page 121",
          "text": "He owned a goulash or card house, on upper Broadway, where I got many laughs.",
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          "ref": "2003, Tabor Evans, Longarm and Town-Taming Tess",
          "text": "Feeling surer of his bearings, once he'd strode down to the creek and back again, Longarm quietly entered the noisy card house, drifted to the bar, and ordered a schooner of suds to nurse as he lounged there with one boot on the brass rail and the brim of his Stetson shading his tanned face from the coal-oil lamp right above him.",
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          "ref": "2004, Scott Tharler, Winning Casino Gambling, page 132",
          "text": "So when you walk into a casino or card house, you can expect to find more people playing more varieties of poker more frequently than ever.",
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        "Alternative form of cardhouse",
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        },
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          "ref": "2009, Karl Fulves, Foolproof Card Tricks for the Amateur Magician, page 71",
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          "ref": "2013, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Gold Coast: Three Californias, page 306",
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          "text": "Feeling surer of his bearings, once he'd strode down to the creek and back again, Longarm quietly entered the noisy card house, drifted to the bar, and ordered a schooner of suds to nurse as he lounged there with one boot on the brass rail and the brim of his Stetson shading his tanned face from the coal-oil lamp right above him.",
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