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fortune-teller
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I knew that as a fortune-teller and spirit medium, she was paid to console or cajole the dead. ▪ I thought of all the times the fortune-teller who had come to North Crittendon had told me the same thing. ▪ Mrs Bay and the fortune-teller ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fortuneteller , 1580s, from fortune + teller . Verbal phrase tellen fortune is from early 15c.; verbal noun fortune-telling is by 1570s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of fortuneteller English)
Usage examples of fortune-teller.
And yet the police know as well as you or I that every Church charity garden-party has got its clairvoyante or its fortune-teller.
He had only diverted the wrath of the drovers by quickly claiming that he was a fortune-teller, not a gambler.
There was a secret path to it up the cliff, by which a trusted freedman of his, a man of great physical strength, used to conduct the disreputable characters-prostitutes, pathics, fortune-tellers and magicians-with whom he customarily passed his evenings.
Of all the fortune-tellers and palm readers and psychics that I've known in other carnivals, you're the first person I've ever met who actually has some ESP.
I idolized the genius of Ariosto, and considered him a far better fortune-teller than Virgil.
He even indulged in half a crown's worth of Zara, the Crystal Gazer, smiling a little to himself as he did so, remembering his own activities against fortune-tellers in his official days.
From that, I take it that most of your information about it is gleaned from television shows and fortune-tellers in county fairs.
Later the clause was invoked to bring in the dancers and the prostitutes, the gamblers and the fortune-tellers, and all the others who catered to the more basic needs and preyed on the gullibilities of this rough-and-ready pioneer community.
Jameson and myself have visited several of the fortune-tellers and practitioners of the occult sciences in which we had reason to believe Miss Gilbert was interested.
The smile remained wide as Herr Gerstmann explained our mission, though a less experienced fortune-teller than I could have seen the tightening cheek muscles that turned it from a social grace to a rictus of necessity.