palmistry

Example Sentences

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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

She consulted readers and priestesses in New Orleans and, after a bad breakup, received palmistry from a reader in Brooklyn.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 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

At the closing banquet someone mentioned to Mikhail Tal that Bobby, who’d been studying palmistry, was reading the palms of other players, almost as a parlor game.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady