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Lenormand
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English
Etymology
Named after Marie Anne Lenormand Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand, a fortune-teller during the Napoleonic era.
Noun
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A type of fortune-telling card named after Marie Anne Lenormand.
en There are three kinds of Lenormand cards: Petit Lenormand, Grand Jeu Lenormand and Petit Jeu Lenormand.
en 1960 Hobbies - Volume 65 Otto C. Lightner; Pearl Ann Reeder 126 The large card is from a Lenormand fortune-telling deck (French, c. 1860) with mythological and astrological symbols.
en 1996 A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot Michael Dummett; Ronald Decker; Thierry Depaulis 141 German, Austrian and even Belgian and Swiss cardmakers have made and still make these 'Petit Lenormands'.
en 2013 Learning Lenormand: Traditional Fortune Telling for Modern Life Marcus Katz; Tali Goodwin 0738736473 It is wonderful how literal and direct the Lenormand cards will be if you allow them to speak clearly and simply.
en 2013 Cartomancy with the Lenormand and the Tarot Patrick Dunn 0738736007 Combining the simplicity of the traditional but little-known Lenormand deck with the familiarity of the tarot, Dunn creates a unique learning format blending these two powerful systems.
Translations
A type of fortune-telling cards
Finnish: fi Lenormandin kortit p
See also
Appendix:Lenormand cards
Anagrams
en adelmnnor almendron nondermal
en eponyms
en Cartomancy
French
Etymology
fr
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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