cartomancy

cartomancy
telling fortunes using playing cards

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  • Cartomancy — is fortune telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were first introduced into Europe in the 14th century [Huson, Paul (2004). [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0892811900 Mystical… …   Wikipedia

  • Cartomancy — Car to*man cy, n. [Cf. F. cartomancie. See {Card}, and { mancy}.] The art of telling fortunes with cards. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cartomancy — noun Fortune telling using cards, as in tarot …   Wiktionary

  • cartomancy — n. divination, practice of foretelling the future using cards …   English contemporary dictionary

  • cartomancy — [ kα:tə(ʊ)ˌmansi] noun fortune telling involving the interpretation of playing cards. Derivatives cartomancer noun Origin C19: from Fr. cartomancie, from carte card + mancie (see mancy) …   English new terms dictionary

  • cartomancy — car·to·man·cy …   English syllables

  • cartomancy — Magic using cards or prophecy using cards …   Grandiloquent dictionary

  • cartomancy — /ˈkatəmænsi/ (say kahtuhmansee) noun divination by cards, whether a standard pack or a special one such as the tarot pack. {French cartomancie, from carto card + mancie mancy} …  

  • cartomancy —   n. divination or fortune telling by playing cards …   Dictionary of difficult words

  • Cartomancy —    Fortune telling by the use of cards, usually playing cards. Gypsies often used this method of fortune telling. See Divination …   The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology

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