Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who attempts to foretell future events, or to tell the fortunes and dispositions of persons, by inspecting their hands. Also chiromant, chiromantist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who practices chiromancy.

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  • noun A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.

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  • noun fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms

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Examples

  • Lecoq, on his knees, studied each footprint with the attention of a chiromancer professing to read the future in the hand of a rich client.

    Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

  • I, Madame Zoe, chiromancer, lifelong student of the moldings and markings of the human hand; I, Madame Zoe, to whom no facet of your character or destiny is not readily revealed, I am prepared to ...

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • Out of those hands, so delicately, ideally white and transparent, with their faint tracery of azure veins -- from those rosy hollowed palms, wherein a chiromancer would have discovered many an intricate crossing of lines, ten, twenty different men had drunk at a price.

    The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900

  • The old man carefully held the lantern in the best position, while Lecoq, on his knees, studied each footprint with the attention of a chiromancer professing to read the future in the hand of a rich client.

    Monsieur Lecoq ��mile Gaboriau 1852

  • Is the handedness of life, its chirality (think chiromancer, which means "palm reader"), linked to its origins some 3.5 billion years ago, or did it develop after life was well on its way?

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • "Good people and worthy citizens of this town," he might say, "behold in me the great master ... prince of necromancers, astrologer, second mage, chiromancer, agromancer, pyromancer, hydromancer.

    German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890

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