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palmist

/pah-muh-stree/US // ˈpɑ mə stri //UK // (ˈpɑːmɪstrɪ) //

掌门人,掌门,掌柜的,掌教

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.

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Examples

  • All you need is a competent plastic surgeon with an electric scalpel who has a basic knowledge of palmistry.

  • I have brought the party hither, that you may use palmistry, or chiromancy if such is your pleasure.

  • Other Professors have stooped to it, but I—oh, no, it is playing palmistry a little bit too low down.

  • During the Christmas holidays she had been poring over an article on palmistry which she found in a magazine.

  • Palmistry assigns fine, tapering fingers to "artistic temperament," and rightly, for fine fingers are necessary for fine work.

  • The amount of study given to the hand renders it probable that palmistry may have considerable value as a physiognomic science.