tarot
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarock.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
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.
Quotations [edit]
- 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; [...]
Translations [edit]
card game
individual card
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Noun [edit]
tarot m (plural tarots)
Homonyms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Serbo-Croatian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French tarot, from Italian tarocchi.
Noun [edit]
tarot m (Cyrillic spelling тарот)
- tarot (card game)
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms with homophones
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Divination
- en:Occult
- en:Card games
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from French
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Italian
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
