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]
roses, suit, other, uses, rose, disambiguation, roses, flowers, four, playing, card, suits, deck, swiss, suited, playing, cards, this, suit, invented, 15th, century, german, speaking, switzerland, survivor, from, large, pool, experimental, suit, signs, created. 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 RosesNative nameGerman RosenDeckSwiss suited playing cardsInvented15th centuryCharacteristics editThe rose is represented by a stylised yellow flower with six leaves and an orange pistil In German the suit is called Rosen Cards editThe following images depict the suit of Roses from an 1850 Swiss suited pack nbsp 2 nbsp 6 nbsp 7 nbsp 8 nbsp 9 nbsp Banner nbsp Unter nbsp Ober nbsp KingReferences edit Dummett Michael 1980 The Game of Tarot London Duckworth pp 10 32 nbsp This card game related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Roses suit amp oldid 1218549266, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
