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  1. n. Divination with tea leaves.

Etymologies

  1. A macaronic blend of French tasse ("cup") and -graphy ("writing") (Wiktionary)

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  • “Kuma's transgression is something known to its practitioners as tasseography.”

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  • “Forty years of military rule has produced a dictatorship of tasseography, where people whisper instead of talk and everyday life is calibrated for survival.”

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  • “But the tasseography of the news ticker was of no interest, the television had become redundant and outdated.”

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  • “The latest experiment in tasseography (or tea-leaf reading) comes from Marianne Wolk, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group.”

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Words with the same meaning

  1. tasseomancy
  1. tassology

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  1. divination
  1. tea

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  • treeseed Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy or tassology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments.

    The terms derive from the French word tasse (cup), which in turn derives from the Arabic tassa (cup), and the Greek suffixes -graph, -logy, and -mancy (divination).
    _Wikipedia
    Jan 26, 2008

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