Word: tarocchi
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...question has often been raised as to whether Italy was the originator of the game, and the Tarocchi pack of 78 cards has been held by many to be the first version of the modern deck. The Tarocchi consists of 22 Atutti cards and 56 Cartaccie, the latter containing four suits, each with four court cards instead of the usual three. These are the King, Queen, Knight, and Valet. The suit marks are Clubs, Coins, Cups, and Swords, and are held to be symbolic of the four orders of society, the church, the nobility the traders, and the rascal multitude...
...Tarocchi cards bear a relation to the so-called Tarocchi prints, a set of engravings from which the designs on the cards were derived...
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