tarot

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

At the bottom I perceived store of dice, cards, tarots [‘Great cards on which many different things are figured.’ --Motteux. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
And, half-laughing and half-nervous, he remembered a conversation with a friend of his, a great Wall Street operator, who combined the shrewdness of his kind with his kind's superstition, and had recourse in moments of tension to clairvoyants and tarot cards. — Changeling, and Other Stories, Donn Byrne

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