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tarok

tarok is the dated form of tarot.

Meaning of tarot

Noun

tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)

  1. (plural, singular) A card game played in various different variations.
    • […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.
  2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

Forms of tarok

pluraltaroks

Questions about tarok

What is tarok the dated form of?
Tarok is the dated form of tarot.

Words near tarok in the dictionary

  1. taroc
  2. tarocs
  3. tarof
  4. tarogato
  5. tarogatos
  6. tarok
  7. Taroko
  8. taroks
  9. taromancy
  10. Taron
  11. Tarons

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