tarot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One of a pack of playing-cards first used in Italy in the fourteenth century, and so named from the design of plain or dotted lines crossing diagonally on the back of the cards. The original pack contained seventy-eight cards—namely, four suits of ten numeral cards, as in the modern game, with four coat-cards (king, queen, chevalier, and valet) in each suit, and a series of twenty-two atutti or atouts, these last being the trumps, and known specifically as the tarots.
2. n. A game played with the above cards: often used in the plural.

Wiktionary

1. n. A card game played in various different variations.
2. n. Any of the set of 78 playing-cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A game of cards; -- called also taroc.
2. n. any of a set of 22 playing cards which bear allegorical images representing various objects or influences affecting human life, and widely used in fortunetelling; they are also used as trumps in the game of taroc. Various images are used by different artists to represent the themes of each card.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers