Tarot

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tarot \Tar"ot\, n. [F.; cf. It. tarocco.]
     1. A game of cards; -- called also {taroc}. --Hoyle.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. any of a set of 22 playing cards which bear allegorical
        images representing various objects or influences


        affecting human life, and widely used in fortunetelling;
        they are also used as trumps in the game of taroc. Various
        images are used by different artists to represent the
        themes of each card.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tarot
       n : any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards
           representing virtues and vices and death and fortune
           etc.; used by fortunetellers [syn: {tarot card}]