card party

noun, house party held for the purpose of playing cards

“When I grew up, there was still house parties and card parties.”

“I’ve heard someone mention box socials. I’m not sure what that is.”
“Well, what it was that you’d have, usually a card party, and the ladies would fix a lunch for a person, a party for two people.”

“They would have parties, like to raise money. Well, they had Valentine parties and all kinds. And they’d be like combined with card parties.”

“And card parties. There used to be a lot of card parties too.”

“I remember my grandparents going to Simcoe Island all the time when they went for card parties.”

“And speaking of the parties, they used to have card parties all the time with Tom and Sarah.”

“The community had fun because they had house parties, and everybody came. And they had card parties. Remember the euchre parties they used to have at the Village?”