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usually uncountable, plural chiromancies
Synonym of palmistry: fortune-telling performed by reading another's hand. quotations examples
If they fore-tell things that shall happen by signes that they see in lines of a mans hand; then it is called Chyromancie...
1620, J. Melton Astrologaster, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Modern palmistry differs from the ancient methods in concentrating on what is called chirognomy at the expense of chiromancy.
1995, C. Walker Encyc, Secret Knowledge