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tarot
[ tar-oh, ta-roh ]
noun
- any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
tarot
/ ˈtærəʊ /
noun
- one of a special pack of cards, now used mainly for fortune-telling, consisting of 78 cards (4 suits of 14 cards each (the minor arcana), and 22 other cards (the major arcana))
- a card in a tarot pack with distinctive symbolic design, such as the Wheel of Fortune
adjective
- relating to tarot cards
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Dusty books, smoking pipes, tarot cards, and a Ouija board fill the antique furniture positioning any object as a clue.
Kanye West gets his tarot cards read by a radical Chilean filmmaker is practically a fully formed SNL sketch.
Lennon and Ono made many decisions based on astrology and the reading of tarot cards.
Mysteriously rendered mute, they must use Tarot cards to communicate.
Mama Donna, Urban Shaman I did a tarot card reading for Tiger.
The Baldini figures which represent these subjects are emblems of their period and not symbols, like the Tarot.
The question, however, remains whether there are Eastern traces in any Tarot cards.
But the point which we have to notice is that in this manner was the antiquity of the Tarot generally trumpeted forth.
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character.
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