Definition of "tarot" []

• Any of a set of usually 78 playing cards including 22 cards depicting vices, virtues, and elemental forces, used in fortunetelling. (noun)
• Any of these 22 pictoral cards used as trump in tarok. (noun)
• Tarok. (noun)

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• "Although the tarot is most often used as a tool for divination, tarot cards are also great, practical tools for writing and creative thinking."
• "Oh hell, I guess if you want a random technique absolutely disconnected from the real world, tarot is a great idea."
• "His second book, The Magician and the Fool has a slippery subtly that rewards repeat visits, and his historical theory about the origin of the tarot is going to keep the New Agers buzzing for some time."