palmistry

Noun

uncountable usually countable obsolete rare

Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand. / (countable) A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry. / (obsolete, rare) A dexterous use or trick of the hand.

Japanese Meaning

手相占い：手のひらの線から未来を読み解く占い / 手相に関する書籍、または手相占いの体系 / （古語・稀な用法）巧妙な手さばき、手の技

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After learning palmistry from a traveling expert, she started offering weekend readings at the local market.

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彼女は旅の専門家から手相占いを学んだ後、地元の市場で週末に鑑定を提供し始めた。

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Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand.

Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry.

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Sense（2）

(countable) A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry.

No living palmistries can spell

The bird-runes on the stretched silk of her hand

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Sense（3）

(obsolete, rare) A dexterous use or trick of the hand.

In the Height of his Good-humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjuror, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was pick’d: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous.

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palmistries

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