fortunetelling
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of fortunetelling
Example Sentences
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A few miles away, throngs of young people lining the streets of the old town peddled cheap fortunetelling, as pulsing music poured out of nearby bars.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024
Kayoko Shiraishi, a veteran actress known for ghost tale monologues, performed Ugetsu’s “The Kibitsu Cauldron,” a story of an imprudent man who marries a priest’s good daughter despite a cauldron’s fortunetelling revealing a bad omen.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2023
And — spoiler alert — that means she’s running her own fortunetelling business again.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023
Don’t miss the arch-decadent Enoch Soames and the fortunetelling A.V.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022
He had not expected fortunetelling to be so vague.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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