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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.


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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. relating to tarot cards
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tarot1

1590–1600; back formation from taros (plural) < Middle French < Italian tarocchi, plural of tarocco
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tarot1

C16: from French, from Old Italian tarocco, of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

Rousseau began exploring occult traditions like tarot and astrology in her teens, as an avid reader with a penchant for the esoteric.

TikTok and Instagram psychics also jumped into the deluge with tarot readings focused on Petito’s final moments and Laundrie’s whereabouts as the FBI hunts him down.

Sanctuary provides paid one-on-one text-based support—a kind of predictive therapy—with a stable of professional astrologists and tarot card readers available at the tap of a screen.

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I know that sounds like it comes from a pack of tarot cards.

Dusty books, smoking pipes, tarot cards, and a Ouija board fill the antique furniture positioning any object as a clue.

Kanye West gets his tarot cards read by a radical Chilean filmmaker is practically a fully formed SNL sketch.

Lennon and Ono made many decisions based on astrology and the reading of tarot cards.

Mysteriously rendered mute, they must use Tarot cards to communicate.

Mama Donna, Urban Shaman I did a tarot card reading for Tiger.

The Baldini figures which represent these subjects are emblems of their period and not symbols, like the Tarot.

The question, however, remains whether there are Eastern traces in any Tarot cards.

But the point which we have to notice is that in this manner was the antiquity of the Tarot generally trumpeted forth.

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character.

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