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Definition of Tarot card
1. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarot Card
Literary usage of Tarot card
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The 30 Trials of IX and the Angels by Mark Durant (2004)
"The bull represented a secret tarot card that overlaid the traditional card for
the Hanged Man. "23" was at the top of the card, "TOR" was at the bottom, ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1879)
"One old German pack, with Latin inscriptions at the top and German at the bottom,
includes a queer tarot-card representing a man in a drunken sleep after ..."
3. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1912)
"As shown on the tarot card, the man is hanging by his left leg and the right leg
crosses it, thereby forming a cross. His hands are tied behind his back and ..."
4. ... Official Catalogue ...by Moses Purnell Handy by Moses Purnell Handy (1893)
"... number [ reviews the tarot emblems ¡n detail. of the '_'! tarot card- has ;i¡n-ady
been s ut; '.rested in connection esc cards, and it is not surprising ..."
5. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"The tarot card symbolizing the implicits of the letter Vau is numbered Five.
The mathematical properties of this number, and its many correspondences in ..."