tarot

[ tar-oh, ta-roh ]

/ ˈtær oʊ, tæˈroʊ /

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noun

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

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Origin of tarot

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

Words nearby tarot

tarnished plant bug, Tarnopol, Tarnów, taro, tarok, tarot, tarp, tarpan, tarpaper, tarpaulin, Tarpeia

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How to use tarot in a sentence

Rousseau began exploring occult traditions like tarot and astrology in her teens, as an avid reader with a penchant for the esoteric.
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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.
Incels, Men’s Rights Groups, and Culture-War Trolls Glom Onto Gabby Petito’s Death|Kate Briquelet|September 27, 2021|The Daily Beast
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.
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Dusty books, smoking pipes, tarot cards, and a Ouija board fill the antique furniture positioning any object as a clue.
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Kanye West gets his tarot cards read by a radical Chilean filmmaker is practically a fully formed SNL sketch.
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Lennon and Ono made many decisions based on astrology and the reading of tarot cards.
How John Lennon Rediscovered His Music in Bermuda|The Telegraph|November 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Mysteriously rendered mute, they must use Tarot cards to communicate.
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Mama Donna, Urban Shaman I did a tarot card reading for Tiger.
Where in the World Is Tiger?|The Daily Beast|January 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The Baldini figures which represent these subjects are emblems of their period and not symbols, like the Tarot.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
The question, however, remains whether there are Eastern traces in any Tarot cards.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
But the point which we have to notice is that in this manner was the antiquity of the Tarot generally trumpeted forth.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence

British Dictionary definitions for tarot

tarot

/ (ˈtærəʊ) /

noun

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))

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

adjective

relating to tarot cards

Word Origin for tarot

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

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