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  • noun Plural form of chiromancer.

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Examples

  • They belong in the same class as astrologers, chiromancers, numerologists, and all those people who claim to have predicted momentous events, but only after the momentous events have occurred.

    "No summer for you, young lady!" sovay 2009

  • Update: A fuller response from the chiromancers sorry, chiropractors:

    Simon Singh wins the right to a full appeal: UPDATED TK 2009

  • Update: A fuller response from the chiromancers sorry, chiropractors:

    Archive 2009-10-01 TK 2009

  • I apply this term very loosely to a New Age-y collection of people who call themselves witches or wiccans or pagans or simply working-stiff astrologers and chiromancers.

    Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Witches and magic in Salem 2008

  • "So accurate a revealer of personality is the thumb "- she was addressing Mrs. Hankshaw now -" that the Hindu chiromancers base their entire work on it, and the Chinese have a minute and intricate system founded solely on the capillaries of the first phalanx.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

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