Playing card
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A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the
Hand of French-suited cards
Suit of Bells from a Bavarian pack
Chinese printed playing card c. 1400 AD found near Turpan
Card players in 18th Century Venice, by Pietro Longhi
Tarot
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Tarot is a set of playing cards used in Tarot card games and fortune-telling or divination. From at least the mid-15th century, the tarot was used to play trick-taking card games such as Tarocchini. F
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…pattern. However, many countries use other, traditional types of playing card, including those that are German, Italian, Spanish and Swiss-suited. Tarot cards (also known locally as Tarocks or tarocchi) are an old genre of playing card that is still very popular in France, central and Eastern Europe and Italy…
Trumps of the Tarot de Marseilles, a standard 18th-century playing card pack, later also used for divination
A 3-card tarot spread used for divination. The deck is the Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot Deck (a faithful reproduction of the original Rider-Waite-Smith deck from 1909).
The juggler from the Pierpont Morgan Bergamo Visconti-Sforza pack
The Cary sheet, a partial uncut sheet of Milanese tarocchi, c. 1500