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n. - Telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand.

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  • Also called chiromancy, palm reading reading has a long history extending back to ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.
  • If, however, the observation regards the dispositions, that occur to the eye, of figures in certain bodies, there will be another species of divination: for the divination that...
  • Interested in chiromancy? she said, noting Clarys gaze.
  • Balzac was interested in the occult sciences -- in chiromancy and cartomancy.
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