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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TAROK , a See also:

GAME

game of See also:

CARDS, PLAYING

cards very popular in See also:

Austria and See also:

Germany, and played to a limited extent in some parts of See also:

France . See also:

SPECIAL

Special cards are used, and the rules are complicated . The name Tarot was originally given by the Italians to a certain card in the See also:

pack as See also:

early as the 13th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, but was afterwards applied to the game itself .

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