tarot
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarock.
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[edit] Noun
tarot (plural tarots)
- (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
- Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
[edit] Quotations
- 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.
- [...] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
- 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [1]
- They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.
- As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.
- 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [2]
- In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; [...]
[edit] Translations
card game
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[edit] French
[edit] Noun
tarot m. (plural tarots)
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[edit] Serbo-Croatian
[edit] Etymology
From French tarot, from Italian tarocchi.
[edit] Noun
tarot m. (Cyrillic spelling тарот)
- tarot (card game)
