tarot

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  1. noun Any of a set of usually 78 playing cards including 22 cards depicting vices, virtues, and elemental forces, used in fortunetelling.
  2. noun Any of these 22 pictoral cards used as trump in tarok.
  3. noun Tarok.

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  • Although I didn't expect the predictions of Nostradamus to carry much more weight than a horoscope or a tarot-card reading, I was curious to discover why they had persisted over the centuries. —  Omni: December 1993
  • Some of the better-known versions include the gilded tarot, the Aquarian tarot, the Universal Waite tarot, the Nigel Jackson tarot and the Golden tarot among others. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • After shuffling them and you have determined that you have shuffle enough the next step is to lay the cards down in what is called a tarot card spread. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Those of us at Dubbs 'Daily Tarot Card believe Dubbs' journey with the tarot is complete, for now.
  • The oracle of the tarot, a course on tarot divination. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977
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  1. French, from Italian tarocco.

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  1. Also taroc (= German tarock) (from Italian); from French tarots, from Italian tarocchi, a kind of checkered cards, also the game called tarot; origin obscure.
 

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