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Tarot, Tarock, Tarocchi
A set of cards used for playing trick taking card games which use a constant trump suit and also for various cartomantic, spiritual, or psychological applications.
The typical 78 card tarot includes four regular suits of 14 cards each, a trump suit of 21 cards, and the fool. Each of the four regular suits are headed by 4 court cards; the king, the queen, the knight or cavalier, and the jack or page. These regular suits are often called "minor arcana." The 21 trumps and the fool form a set often called the "major arcana." The terms "major arcana" and "minor arcana" are more often used by tarot card readers than they are by game players.
The Italian suited tarot uses the suit signs of coins or pentacles, cups, batons or wands, and swords. The French suited tarot uses the suit signs of diamonds, hearts, clubs, and spades. The Italian suited tarot is currently favored by those practicing tarot reading although it is still used in some regions for card playing. With few exceptions, French suited tarots are almost exclusively used for card playing and not for cartomancy.
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