palmistry

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Palmistry, the art of reading character from the lines and marks on the palm of the hand, according to which some pretend to read fortunes as well.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Palmistry, or Telling Fortunes by the Lines of the Hand.

From The Blunders of a Bashful Man by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller

In it, the rules of Palmistry that I have given in the following pages are borne out in all their details.

From Palmistry for All by Cheiro

"I wish I could some day persuade the Baron to read my palms," I exclaimed, "Palmistry has always rather appealed to me."

From The Four Faces A Mystery by Le Queux, William

In spite of this persecution it is interesting and significant to notice that almost the first book ever printed was a work on Palmistry, Die Kunst Ciromantia, printed in Augsburg, in the year 1475.

From Palmistry for All by Cheiro