palmist

Example Sentences

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For a long time, this would have seemed as foolish as giving your money to a palmist.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

Ads for Coca-Cola and Tops Snuff, the famed palmist sign itself.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2015

Now see this Robert Adams describes himself as "a palmist" rather than a prophet.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2010

Laider, Kiley is a prescient palmist who foretells the death of four people riding in a railway coach.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm sure that if a palmist had contrived to capture Phil's virtuous little hand, and foretold any such events, my stepsister would have considered them as impossible as monstrous.

From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Anderson, Karl