Key facts
- Native name
- French : Carreau
- Deck
- French-suited playing cards
- Invented
- 15th century
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- SuitDiamonds.svg
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- Commons category
- Diamonds (playing cards)
- TeX string
- \diamondsuit
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Diamonds ( ♦) (French: Carreau) 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. It is the only French suit to not have been adapted from the German deck, taking the place of the suit of Bells. There was one early French pack that used crescents instead of diamonds, which may explain this anomaly. Rough coloring techniques on the red stripe on the German bells may have caused the circles to appear as irregularly shaped dots, and French cardmakers may have decided to drop the details and straighten out the sides.
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