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ta⋅rot

  [tar-oh, ta-roh]
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–noun
any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.
Origin:
1590–1600; back formation from taros (pl.) < MF < It tarocchi, pl. of tarocco
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tar·ot   (tār'ō, tə-rō')   


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n.  

    1. Any of a set of usually 78 playing cards including 22 cards depicting vices, virtues, and elemental forces, used in fortunetelling.

    2. Any of these 22 pictoral cards used as trump in tarok.

  2. tarots Tarok.


[French, from Italian tarocco.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

tarot 
1598, from Fr. tarot (16c.), from O.It. tarocchi (pl.), of unknown origin, perhaps from Arabic taraha "reject." The deck first used in Italy 14c., as playing cards as well as for fortune-telling. The tarots, strictly speaking, are the 22 figured cards added to the 56-card suits pack.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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