tarot
/ˈtarəʊ
/noun [mass noun] (the Tarot)
1Playing cards, traditionally a pack of 78 with five suits, used for fortune-telling and (especially in Europe) in certain games. The suits are typically swords, cups, coins (or pentacles), batons (or wands), and a permanent suit of trumps: tarot is a powerful way of revealing the truth about your life [as modifier]: a tarot reading...
- I did much reading about Reincarnation, Astrology, Magick, Divination and Tarot.
- The suits are only called what they are because they were common objects when the Tarot was originated - swords and staves, coins and cups, they're everyday items.
- Our strengths include our commitment to truth and healing, our unconstrained support for one another, and the gift that is Tarot.
1.1A card game played with tarot cards.The blank cards can be used as an alternative to following suit (rather like the fool in classic tarot games)....
- You and that beautiful woman - yes, yes, the one with the blue eyes - playing tarot with the French dudes.
- Turns out its a part of a flash card set for kids to learn numbers and such, but the tarot reference got us talking about doing a Fisher Price tarot set, like Tarot for kids.
1.2 [count noun] A card from a pack of tarot cards."Great," She smiled, " I'm gonna go over and talk to her, maybe have her read my tarots"....
- She claimed to be able to sense the suit of a tarot card (Fire, Water, Matter, Air) through opaque barriers.
- If a tarot card gets ‘marked’ in some way, that can generally be considered a blessing on that card.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French, from Italian tarocchi, of unknown origin.