palmistry

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That's what I thought about the range of studies relating to jewels, palmistry, astrology, numerology and the like (even though I ended up studying them way too much, but then, you dont have much option when you are stiffed inside the hospital bed for months on end).

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  1. noun The practice or art of telling fortunes from the lines, marks, and patterns on the palms of the hands.

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  • They were seated at the table she used for her palmistry sessions, a sturdy card table with a dark red velvet cloth, two lamps, one with a beaded shade and dim light, the other a high-intensity halogen light that gave off a lot of heat. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 02 - February 2002
  • In palmistry, women entrepreneurs 'hands reveal, in the hand's simple, straightforward way, the STRUCTURE of money as well as what to do and what NOT to do to have a good relationship with money. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • That's what I thought about the range of studies relating to jewels, palmistry, astrology, numerology and the like (even though I ended up studying them way too much, but then, you dont have much option when you are stiffed inside the hospital bed for months on end). —  Desicritics
  • "There was in this world nothing so impudent as a gypsy when determined to tell a fortune; and the idea of not one, but many gypsy girls believing earnestly in my palmistry was like a righteous retribution The late Tom Taylor had, while a student at Cambridge, been aficionado_, or smitten, with gypsies, and made a manuscript vocabulary of Romany words, which he allowed me to use, and from which I obtained several which were new to me. —  The Gypsies
  • That there are evils in palmistry, and sin in card-drawing, and iniquity in coffee-grounding, and vice in all the planets, is established by statute, and yet withal I incline to believe that the art of prediction cheers up many a despondent soul, and does some little good, even as good ale, despite the wickedness of drinking, makes some hearts merry and others stronger. —  The Gypsies
 

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  1. Middle English palmestrie, from palme, paume, palm; see palm1.

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  1. from palmist + -ry.
 

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/ˈpælmɪstri/
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