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

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

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

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

We ought to have a game at tarok after all this trouble.

From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef

The young Count will be there to-night, and we'll have some tarok.

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