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tarot

tarot


tar·ot    Audio Help   (tār'ō, tə-rō')   

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.]
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