cartomancy
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of cartomancy
C19: from French carte card + -mancy
Example Sentences
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A rotating staff of witches and artists will do tarot readings, energy work and cartomancy, a form of divination using a deck of cards.
From Seattle Times
Without question, Cumming belongs here, at center stage, using cartomancy to solve crimes and chafing at feckless coroners.
From The Guardian
Game historian David Parlett has written that the classic Solitaire likely developed in the Baltic in the 18th century, possibly as a form of fortune telling, during a wave of renewed interest in tarot and cartomancy.
From Salon
The tower of Ashton Church, as Rector Fairfax knew it, was taken down and re-built in 1818, by which time all recollection of that ancient piece of cartomancy in connection with the steeple had passed out of mind.
From Project Gutenberg
Cartomancy, k�r′tō-man-si, n. a divination by playing-cards.
From Project Gutenberg
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