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Definition of Tarots
1. tarot [n] - See also: tarot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarots
Literary usage of Tarots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by John King Van Rensselaer (1912)
"In order to come closely to the meanings attributed to the devices as well as to
the figures on the Atout part of the tarots, each one must be studied ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1879)
"There were generally twenty- two tarots in the ancient packs, ... Some packa
comprised tarots only, and ranged to forty or fifty in number. ..."
3. The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob, James Dafforne (1870)
"Added to this, Raphael Maffei, who lived at the end of the fifteenth century,
has left in his " Commentaries" a description of tarots, which were, he says, ..."
4. Introduction to a Catalogue of the Early Italian Prints in the British Museum by Richard Fisher (1886)
"19), that: "The origin of the word tarot, or tarots, has been much canvassed.
Some have derived it from Egyptian dialects ; others have regarded it as ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"And it is a suggestive fact that the earliest notice we have of tarots is at ...
tarots were played in the highest circles of Roman society in the latter ..."
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