tarok

American  

[tuh-rok] / təˈrɒk /

noun

1. a card game dating probably from the Renaissance and still popular in central Europe, originally played with a special pack of 78 cards but now usually played with 32 cards of a regular pack together with 22 tarots.

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Etymology

Origin of tarok

1605–15; < obsolete Italian tarocco; see tarot

Example Sentences

Conversations round the room were now carried on in whispers; tarok cards were produced and here and there a game was in progress.

From A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

After supper one said to the other: "Let us make use of our time; the young fellows can dance; let us play tarok."

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór

Katharine II. was passionately fond of playing tarok, and she particularly liked that variety of the game which was later on named, after a celebrated Russian general, "Paskevics," and required four players.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

The young people danced, the old played whist or tarok, and they stayed till daybreak.

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór

Taking an opportunity when her father was absorbed in his game of tarok, she went into the next room and presently returned with a key in her hand, which she surreptitiously gave to my lord.

From A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness