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
Tarot playing cards from Austria
Suit of Bells from a Bavarian pack
Chinese printed playing card c. 1400 AD found near Turpan
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
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