Definition of tarot
: any of a set of usually 78 playing cards including 22 pictorial cards used for fortune-telling
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Other more adventurous partygoers ventured into the invite-only bar-within-the-bar situated behind a tarot card reader.
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And the quiet moment in which Dotte (Nicole Lewis) reads Mabel’s fate in tarot cards is an acting class in naturalism.
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Free People's retreats started a few years ago where participants can exercise and try journaling or tarot card workshop in spots like Glacier National Park.
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There were paintings of Cattrall, handmade tarot cards, and a performance artist performing Samantha's monologues.
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Graci placed a tarot card reader in the room to make sure people mingled throughout the house and didn't all gather in the garden room in the back.
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At the same time roughly 100 feet away inside the library, a small group of tarot card enthusiasts were having their futures explained.
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At the same time as La Kymberlina was dancing, in another part of the library Bonnie White of El Cajon was having her future laid out before her during a tarot card reading.
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First, note the topical variety: There’s an exquisite essay on Chee’s mid-1990s obsession with rose gardening, another on 1980s AIDS activism in San Francisco, another on tarot card readings, another on money as the bearer of symbolic meanings.
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Origin and Etymology of tarot
Middle French, from Italian tarocchi (plural)
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First Known Use: circa 1623
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Definition of tarot for English Language Learners
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: a set of 78 cards with pictures and symbols that is used to see what will happen in the future
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