palmistry

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His now-defunct TikTok account, which has more than 300,000 followers, claims to make predictions based on astrology and palmistry.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

After explaining that she had picked up the precepts of medieval palmistry decades ago, from an art-historian neighbor whose specialty was Hieronymus Bosch, Atwood spent several disconcerting minutes poring over my hands.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

The name came from a random page in a Victorian book of palmistry.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016

As night descends you’ll watch a palmistry of cities come to glowing life on the darkness below, and you’ll wonder, too, about the rare lights of the empty places.

From Slate • May 31, 2016

The palmistry, the scriptology, the rest of their esoterica.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee