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单词 tarot
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tarotn.

/tɑːrəʊ/
Etymology: < French tarot (also 16th cent. tarault , tarau ), < Italian *tarocco (plural tarocchi ): see taroc n.
1. One of a set of playing-cards, first used in Italy in the 14th cent. (Also used in fortune-telling.) Also attributive.The tarots, strictly speaking, are a series of 22 figured cards (21 of which are numbered), all being trumps, which are added to a set of 56 (in four suits), forming a pack of 78.
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1872 W. Skeen Early Typogr. 55 A single pack of ‘tarots’, admirably painted about 1415 by Marziano,..cost the enormous sum of 1500 golden crowns (about £625).
1888 Chambers's Encycl. II. 763/1 No Spanish tarots are known to exist.
1899 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 611 Piot..was..the first to collect ‘Tarots’, those valuable playing cards, which now fetch such a high price.
1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 2 in Encycl. Dict. Suppl. As fall the Tarot cards, so fell Each rose~page of the Oracle.
1928 D. Byrne Destiny Bay vii. 319 An old woman crazed by gambling and tarot cards.
1957 L. Durrell Justine iii. 180 Justine..would sit cross-legged on the bed and begin to lay out the little pack of Tarot cards.
1972 Time 19 June 26/2 The Center also presents tarot-card readings.
1977 Jrnl. Playing-Card Soc. May 3 Some Milan card makers reached a high degree of technical and artistic quality, including specialisation in a particular type of Tarot pack, usually with a narrow format.
2. In plural. The game played with these.
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1592 G. Delamothe French Alphabeth 150 Will you play at Tables, at Dyce, at Tarots, at Chesses?
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