Lenormand

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noun

A type of fortune-telling card named after Marie Anne Lenormand.

“There are three kinds of Lenormand cards: Petit Lenormand, Grand Jeu Lenormand and Petit Jeu Lenormand.”

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounLenormand (countable and uncountable, plural Lenormands)

plural Lenormands

  1. countableuncountableA type of fortune-telling card named after Marie Anne Lenormand.

    There are three kinds of Lenormand cards: Petit Lenormand, Grand Jeu Lenormand and Petit Jeu Lenormand.

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    The large card is from a Lenormand fortune-telling deck (French, c. 1860) with mythological and astrological symbols.

    1960, Otto C. Lightner, Pearl Ann Reeder, Hobbies - Volume 65, page 126

    German, Austrian and even Belgian and Swiss cardmakers have made and still make these 'Petit Lenormands'.

    1996, Michael Dummett, Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis, A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot, page 141

    It is wonderful how literal and direct the Lenormand cards will be if you allow them to speak clearly and simply.

    2013, Marcus Katz, Tali Goodwin, Learning Lenormand: Traditional Fortune Telling for Modern Life, →ISBN

    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.

    2013, Patrick Dunn, Cartomancy with the Lenormand and the Tarot, →ISBN

Origin

Named after Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand, a fortune-teller during the Napoleonic era.

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Translations

Finnish Lenormandin kortit
  • Lenormandin kortitA type of fortune-telling cards

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APA

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Chicago

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