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:
“I sang as one
Who on a tilting deck sings
To keep men’s courage up, though the wake hangs
That shall cut off their sun.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
“The almost universal bareness and smoothness of the landscape were as agreeable as novel, making it so much more like the deck of a vessel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“At twenty-two, he’d been a cowboy, a rustler, one of the best in the Sprawl.... He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the Matrix.”
—William Gibson b. (1948)