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Why is the jack in a deck of cards?
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The face cards
face cards
court card (plural court cards) (card games) A king, queen, or jack/knave card in a standard deck of playing cards.
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were not originally seen as royal. They came from Egypt as the king, deputy, and under deputy. In Europe, this got converted to the king, knight, and knave
knave
A Jack or Knave, in some games referred to as a bower, is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic or courtier dress, generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century. The usual rank of a jack is between the ten and the queen.
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or valet. Eventually the knight was replaced with the queen, and in England, the knave began to be called the jack.