noun.
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 pictorial cards used as trump in tarok.
noun.
Tarok.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
One of a pack of playing-cards first used in Italy in the fourteenth century, and so named from the design of plain or dotted lines crossing diagonally on the back of the cards.
noun.
A game played with the above cards: often used in the plural.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A game of cards; -- called also taroc.
noun.
any of a set of 22 playing cards which bear allegorical images representing various objects or influences affecting human life, and widely used in fortunetelling; they are also used as trumps in the game of taroc. Various images are used by different artists to represent the themes of each card.