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Batons or Clubs is one of the four suits of 
Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: 
Symbol on French 
Card suits
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Batons or Clubs is one of the four suits of playing cards
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a fi ...
in the standard Latin deck along with the suits of Cups, Coins
A coin is a small, flat (usually depending on the country or value), round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to ...
and Swords
A sword is a cutting and/or thrusting weapon.
Sword, Swords, or The Sword may also refer to:
Places
* Swords, Dublin, a large suburban town in the Irish capital
* Swords, Georgia, a community in the United States
* Sword Beach, code name for th ...
. 'Batons' is the name usually given to the suit in Italian-suited cards where the symbols look like batons. 'Clubs' refers to the suit in Spanish-suited cards where the symbols look more like wooden clubs.
Before 1800, French cardmakers, who also made Spanish card games, called them ''cartes à bâtons''. Symbol on Italian pattern cards: Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: Symbol on French Aluette
Aluette or Vache ("Cow") is an old, plain trick-taking card game that is played on the west coast of France. It is played by two teams, usually of four people, but sometimes also of six. It is unusual in using a unique pack of 48 Spanish playing c ...
(Spanish-)pattern cards:
Characteristics
InSpanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
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, the Batons are called ''bastos''; and in Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
, ''bastoni''. In cartomancy
Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were first introduced into Europe in the 14th century. Huson, Paul (2004). ''Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient ...
and occultist circles, the suit of Batons is usually called Wands
A wand is a thin, straight, hand-held stick of wood, ivory, or metal.
Wand or magic wand may also refer to:
People
*Günter Wand, a German orchestra conductor and composer
*Hart Wand, an early white American blues musician and composer from Okla ...
.Dummett, Michael. ''A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot.'' Bloomsbury (1996), p. 47.
See also
*Spanish playing cards
Spanish-suited playing cards or Spanish-suited cards have four suits, and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 cards (or even 50 by including two jokers). It is categorized as a Latin-suited deck and has strong similarities with the Italian- ...
* Italian playing cards
Playing cards (''carte da gioco'') have been in Italy since the late 14th century. Until the mid 19th century, Italy was composed of many smaller independent states which led to the development of various regional patterns of playing cards; "Ital ...
* Suit of Wands
The Suit of Wands is one of four suits in tarot, collectively known as the Minor Arcana. Like the other tarot suits, the suit of wands contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page and knight (sometimes referred to as princess and pri ...
- suit used in divinatory tarot cards
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