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  2. French-suited playing cards - Wikipedia

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    The jack ranking higher than the queen comes from the older Portuguese-suited games where a female knave was outranked by the knight. [27] They also use French-language indices. The Dutch pattern originates from Germany and shares the same parent as the Modern Portuguese pattern but with different queens, and has been produced for the ...

  3. Jack (playing card) - Wikipedia

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    Jack cards of all four suits in the English pattern. A Jack or Knave, in some games referred to as a Bower, in Tarot card games as a Valet, is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic or courtier dress generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century.

  4. Clubs (suit) - Wikipedia

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    Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf.The Italian name is Fiori ("flower"). However, the English name "Clubs" is a translation of basto, the Spanish name for the suit of batons, suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented.

  5. Playing cards in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    A specific white joker, a fool, and twenty-one generic trump cards were added to the Playing Cards block in Unicode 7.0 with the reference description being not the Italian-suited Tarot de Marseille or its derivatives (which are often used in cartomancy) but the French Tarot Nouveau used to play Jeu de tarot, which is used for divination less ...

  6. Jack of Clubs - Wikipedia

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    Jack of Clubs may refer to: Jack of clubs (playing card) Jack of Clubs, an album by Paul Motian; Jack of Clubs Creek, a creek in British Columbia, Canada;

  7. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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    The jack of the trump suit or the Jack of the same colour as the trump suit e.g. in Euchre or Reunion. left bower: the jack of the same colour as the trump suit. [24] right bower: the jack of the trump suit. [24] bring in a suit Make tricks in a plain suit after the adverse trumps are exhausted. [22] bury a card

  8. Cartomancy - Wikipedia

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    Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were introduced into Europe in the 14th century. [1] Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers, or simply readers. Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing fortune-telling card readings in the 18th, 19th, and 20th ...

  9. Standard 52-card deck - Wikipedia

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    A standard 52-card French-suited deck comprises 13 ranks in each of the four suits: clubs (♣), diamonds (♦), hearts (♥) and spades (♠). Each suit includes three court cards (face cards), King, Queen and Jack, with reversible (i.e. double headed) images. Each suit also includes ten numeral cards or pip cards, from one (Ace) to ten.