Someone who makes a living by telling people’s characters and fortunes by examining the palms of their hands. A chiromancer.
"It was then most of all that the idea of his being fated impressed itself on me, because it really seemed as though the giant were reading his own dreadful destiny in his hands, like a palmist, except that it was not written there in fine lines but carved in thick grease, in power cables, black brutal and irresistible.”
Michel Tournier, Gemini (1975).
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