tarot

[ tar-oh, ta-roh ]

noun
  1. any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok.

Origin of tarot

1
1590–1600; back formation from taros (plural) <Middle French <Italian tarocchi, plural of tarocco

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tarot

/ (ˈtærəʊ) /


noun
  1. 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))

  2. a card in a tarot pack with distinctive symbolic design, such as the Wheel of Fortune

adjective
  1. relating to tarot cards

Origin of tarot

1
C16: from French, from Old Italian tarocco, of unknown origin

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