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Tarot   Listen
noun
Tarot  n.  
1.
A game of cards; called also taroc.
2.
Any of a set of 22 playing cards which bear allegorical images representing various objects or influences affecting human life, and widely used in fortunetelling; they are also used as trumps in the game of taroc. Various images are used by different artists to represent the themes of each card.






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"Tarot" Quotes from Famous Books



... forms of playing cards, and are known as "Tarots" (as distinguished from "Numerals," or cards which have the consecutively marked "suit" signs), and which had evidently a purpose outside the ordinary games of playing cards as known to us. The "Tarot" pack consists variously of seventy-two, seventy-seven, or seventy-eight cards, including the "Tarots," which give them their distinctive name. "Tarot" as a game was familiar three centuries ago in England, but is so no longer, although it has a limited use in other parts of Europe still. One of ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various



Words linked to "Tarot" :   card, tarot card



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