Also 7–9 tarok, tarock. [ad. It. *tarocco, in pl. tarocchi, of unknown origin. Also Ger. tarock, F. tarot: see TAROT.]
a. = TAROT a.
b. (also in pl.) = TAROT b.
a. 1611. Florio, Tarocchi, a kind of playing cardes called Tarocks or Terestriall triumphs.
b. 1739. Gray, Lett. to R. West, in Mason, Mem. (1807), I. 211. Play at Ombre and Taroc, a game with 72 cards all painted with suns, and moons, devils and monks.
[1816. Singer, Hist. Cards, 236. The pack of cards with which Tarocco is played, consists of two parts; the first is fifty-six cards of the usual Italian suits, Spade, Coppe, Bastoni, and Denari.… The other part consists of twenty-two cards,… twenty-one of these are called Tarocchi, and the twenty-second Il Matto, or the fool.]
1887. Beatty-Kingston, Music & Manners, II. 318. Skilful players of écarté and tarok.
