Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who practices palmistry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
palmister: now more often used. - Of or pertaining to palmisters or palmistry: as, the palmist art.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fortuneteller who usespalmistry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I said to her, "You are a palmist, not a facialist," and she said,"And an emblem-detector."
Healing Arts Meg Pokrass 2011
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She currently lives in New Hampshire where she enjoys life as a painter, maker of wooden jigsaw puzzles, and palmist.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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She currently lives in New Hampshire where she enjoys life as a painter, maker of wooden jigsaw puzzles, and palmist.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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She currently lives in New Hampshire where she enjoys life as a painter, maker of wooden jigsaw puzzles, and palmist.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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“You could go to a palmist,” he says after a while.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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She currently lives in New Hampshire where she enjoys life as a painter, maker of wooden jigsaw puzzles, and palmist.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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Religious leaders and 'scholars' should have no more say in the affairs of the state than an astrologer or a palmist.
Johann Hari: Stand Up for the Right to Criticize Religion 2009
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A palmist reads her palm and informs Larrie she has an incredibly long life line, but must continue to avoid antiques.
Best Wishes Always-Lucy Flynn « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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We shared a bathroom down the hall with several other families, and the building itself with a palmist whose clients often set up their own begging shops on the cracked sidewalk in front of our door.
Anti Choice? 2009
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Jimmy was an edge-seeker, a palmist, inferring the future out of his own lined flesh, but he looked at his hand one day, according to my little brother, and it was blank.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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