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Old Italian

tarocco

special playing card

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A small spread of recognizable tarot cards beside their face-down deck, with prominent pictorial major-arcana imagery and no lettering.
noun

tarot

TAIR-oh/ˈtærəʊ/

A symbolic card deck used for games or divination.

Etymology
tarotOld Italianspecial playing card

Tarocco named a special playing card, with the plural extended to the whole deck. Their fortune-telling use seems to have developed later; the name’s deeper origin is unknown.

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