Meanings of cheiromancy in English

He has really made me hate cheiromancy.

Indagine, the author of a curious book on cheiromancy, physiognomy, and astrology, was really Johann of Hagen, a German Carthusian who died in 1475.

'You don't mean to say that you believe in cheiromancy?'

"Cheiromancy," she repeated; "can you read the hand?"

"Talking of psychics, the occult and all that sort of thing," I remarked carelessly, "isn't cheiromancy an interesting study?"

'You mustn't say anything against cheiromancy here, Lady Windermere; it is the only subject that Arthur does not like people to chaff about.