"card of ten" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently from the use of cards with a rank of 10 in early card games.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cards of ten",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cards of ten"
      },
      "expansion": "card of ten (plural cards of ten)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte",
          "text": "Fyrste pycke a quarell and fall oute with hym then, / And soo outface hym with a carde of ten.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1561, John Awdely, The Fraternitye of Vacabondes, section XIX",
          "text": "And the noblemen and gentylmen, which shold be the ponysshers of theft, be the chefe mayntayners of robry; bi this meanys often thei robbe & be not taken; but in case he be taken, eyther he shal haue fauor for his masters sake, or els bragg it owt with a carde of .x […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn",
          "text": "Some must be knaves, some varlets, bawds, and ostlers, / As aces, deuces, cards o' ten, to face it / Out i' the game, which all the world is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bold front, an instance of standing one's ground."
      ],
      "id": "en-card_of_ten-en-noun-C3GPxmqt",
      "links": [
        [
          "standing one's ground",
          "stand one's ground"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, idiomatic) A bold front, an instance of standing one's ground."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "card of ten"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently from the use of cards with a rank of 10 in early card games.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cards of ten",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cards of ten"
      },
      "expansion": "card of ten (plural cards of ten)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte",
          "text": "Fyrste pycke a quarell and fall oute with hym then, / And soo outface hym with a carde of ten.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1561, John Awdely, The Fraternitye of Vacabondes, section XIX",
          "text": "And the noblemen and gentylmen, which shold be the ponysshers of theft, be the chefe mayntayners of robry; bi this meanys often thei robbe & be not taken; but in case he be taken, eyther he shal haue fauor for his masters sake, or els bragg it owt with a carde of .x […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn",
          "text": "Some must be knaves, some varlets, bawds, and ostlers, / As aces, deuces, cards o' ten, to face it / Out i' the game, which all the world is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bold front, an instance of standing one's ground."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "standing one's ground",
          "stand one's ground"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, idiomatic) A bold front, an instance of standing one's ground."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "card of ten"
}