Roses_(card_suit)

Roses (suit)

Roses (suit)

Suit in Swiss playing cards

For other uses, see Rose (disambiguation).

Roses or Flowers is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of Swiss-suited playing cards. This suit was invented in 15th century German speaking Switzerland and is a survivor from a large pool of experimental suit signs created to replace the Latin suits. It is equivalent to the Hearts suit in German and French decks.[1]

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Characteristics

The rose is represented by a stylised yellow flower, with six leaves and an orange pistil.

In German, the suit is called Rosen.

Cards

The following images depict the suit of Roses from an 1850 Swiss-suited pack:

References

  1. [1]
    Dummett, Michael (1980). The Game of Tarot. London: Duckworth. pp. 10–32.


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