Face card
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In a deck of playing cards, the term face card or court card, and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. In a standard 52-card pack
The jack, queen and king of spades: three court cards (face cards) from an English pattern pack
Persian Ganjifeh courts with an ace
Emperor Tenji on a yomifuda
As-Nas cards
French-suited playing cards
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French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of trèfles, carreaux, cœurs, and piques. Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. In a standard 52-card
Face card
…US), and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. In a standard 52-card pack of the English pattern, these cards are the King, Queen and Jack. The term picture card is also common, but that term sometimes includes the Aces. After the American innovation…
Standard 32-card deck of the Paris pattern
The standard Anglo-Saxon (Anglo-American or International) pack uses French suit symbols. Cards by Piatnik
Deck celebrating the union of Brittany and France with Spanish suits but has queens instead of knights (Antoine de Logiriera of Toulouse, c. 1500).
French Rouen pattern on the left, Spanish Toledo pattern on the right