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Palmistry is the art — or the claimed art — of looking at the lines, the little pads, and the shape of a person’s palm to say what they are like and what will happen to them. People have it for a very long time, in many countries. In English it sits with other fortune-telling words: it is not taught as science, and careful speakers often leave a little space for doubt. You can study palmistry, believe in it, or try it once at a night market. The everyday phrases are reading palms and having your palm read. Palmistry is the practice; the person who does it is a .
手相、看手相、手相術
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
palmistrynoun/ˈpɑːmɪstɹi/
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Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand.
- Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry.
- And those fayre hands within whose louely palmes, Fortune diuineth happie Augurie, Those straightest fingers dealing heauenly almes, Pointed with pur’st of Natures Alcumie, Where loue sits looking in loues palmistrie.
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A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry.
- No living palmistries can spell The bird-runes on the stretched silk of her hand
- Both the composition and the transmission of this palmistry must be taken in the context of the medieval Christian world, in which the life on earth was still secondary to the life in the hereafter; even so, texts such as these palmistries do make the unreadable mysteries of one’s relationship to the world seem more familiar and more accessible.
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obsoleterareA dexterous use or trick of the hand.
- 1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2, No. 130, 30 July, 1711, London: J. and R. Tonson, 12th edition, 1739, p. 182, In the Height of his Good-humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjuror, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was pick’d: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。