Deck
The game of tarot is played using a 78-card tarot deck, which is composed of a numbered series of 21 trump cards (atouts), one Fool (l'excuse), and 4 suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs), divided into 10 numbers from 1 to 10, and then the face cards of Jack (Valet), Knight (Cavalier), Queen (Dame) and King (Roi). The tarot deck used in cartomancy was derived from the game deck and maintains the structure of the deck. The style of tarot deck most often used for game playing is known as the "Tarot Nouveau" or "Bourgeois Tarot", which has card designs similar to the French styling of the 52-card deck.
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Famous quotes containing the word deck:
“Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hooves i’ the receiving earth;
For ‘tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptune’s diadem.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)