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Roses or Flowers are one of the four suits of
Roses or Flowers are one of the four suits of playing card
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 ...
s used in a Swiss deck
Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards referred to as Swiss-suited playing cards or Swiss-suited cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the "national card game" of Switzerland. The deck is related to the var ...
along with Shields
A shield is a piece of personal armour held in the hand, which may or may not be strapped to the wrist or forearm. Shields are used to intercept specific attacks, whether from close-ranged weaponry or projectiles such as arrows, by means of a ...
, Acorns
Acorns may refer to:
* Plural of acorn, the nut of the oak tree
* Acorns (company), a micro-investing and robo-advisor financial company
* Acorns (suit), one of the four suits in German pattern playing cards
* Acorns Children's Hospice
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and Bells
Bells may refer to:
* Bell, a musical instrument
Places
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* Bells, Tennessee
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* Bells Beach, Victoria, an internationally famous surf beach in Australia
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. 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.
Characteristics
The rose is represented by a stylised yellowflower
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism ...
, with six leaves and an orange pistil
Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) '' pis ...
.
In German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ger ...
, the suit is called ''Rosen''.
Cards
The following images depict the suit of Roses from an 1850 Swiss-suited pack:See also
*Swiss playing cards
Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards referred to as Swiss-suited playing cards or Swiss-suited cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the "national card game" of Switzerland. The deck is related to the var ...
* Card suit
In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by ...
References
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