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Morning Open Thread Thursday April 10, theme: the suit of Diamonds [1]
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Date: 2025-04-10
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============My Thursday theme for April is: suits from a deck of playing cards ==========
>>>This diary is about the card suit ‘Diamonds’.
Diamonds is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. Diamonds along with the other French suits were invented in around 1480.
The original French name of the suit is “Carreau” (diamond),which goes back to the Latin word, quadrum, meaning "square" or "rectangle".
The diamond typically has a lozenge shape, a parallelogram with four equal sides, placed on one of its points. The sides are sometimes slightly rounded and the four vertices placed in a square.
Normally, diamonds are red in color so they can be used in some games as a pair with Hearts, like solitaire. They can however be depicted in blue, which is the case for example in Bridge (where it is one of the two minor suits along with Clubs). In the official Skat tournament deck, diamonds are yellow or orange, assuming the color of their German-deck equivalent, which are usually golden.
All words above from this Wiki: diamonds
Another Wiki: French-suited playing cards
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