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cartomancy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈkɑɹtəˌmænsi/

Etymology

From carto- + -mancy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.
    • These travelling magicians [...] rarely penetrated more deeply into magic than cartomancy, palmistry and the like. 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 91:

Deriveds

cartomancer

Relateds

cartomantic

Translations (24)

mt kartomanzija (fortune-telling using cards) · vi phép bói bài (fortune-telling using cards) · ro cartomanție (fortune-telling using cards) · cmn 紙牌卜卦 /纸牌卜卦 (fortune-telling using cards) · sv spå i kort (fortune-telling using cards) · gl cartomancia (fortune-telling using cards) · nl kaartleggen (fortune-telling using cards) · io kartomancio (fortune-telling using cards) · hu kártyavetés (fortune-telling using cards) · de Kartenlegen (fortune-telling using cards) · fi korteista ennustaminen (fortune-telling using cards) · ru гада́ние на ка́ртах (fortune-telling using cards) · nl cartomancie (fortune-telling using cards) · pl kartomancja (fortune-telling using cards) · cmn 紙牌占卜 (fortune-telling using cards) · ca cartomància (fortune-telling using cards) · el χαρτομαντεία (fortune-telling using cards) · pt cartomancia (fortune-telling using cards) · fr cartomancie (fortune-telling using cards) · de aus den Karten lesen. (fortune-telling using cards) · ja トランプ占い (fortune-telling using cards) · hu kártyajóslás (fortune-telling using cards) · es cartomancia (fortune-telling using cards) · it cartomanzia (fortune-telling using cards)