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CHIROMANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chiromance mean?
• CHIROMANCE (verb)
The verb CHIROMANCE has 1 sense:
1. divine by reading someone's palms
Familiarity information: CHIROMANCE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divine by reading someone's palms
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
She refused to chiromance my fate
Hypernyms (to "chiromance" is one way to...):
divine (perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
chiromancer (fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms)
chiromancy (telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand)
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