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PALMISTRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does palmistry mean?
• PALMISTRY (noun)
The noun PALMISTRY has 1 sense:
1. telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
Familiarity information: PALMISTRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
chirology; chiromancy; palm reading; palmistry
Hypernyms ("palmistry" is a kind of...):
divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)
Context examples
I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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