Tarot

From Fresh Dictionary

English

Noun

tarot

1. A card game played in various different variations.
2. Any of the set of 78 cards used in fortune telling.

Quotations

• 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.

  [...] 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.

• 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [1]

  They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.

  As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.

• 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [2]

  In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; [...]

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