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- noun Alternative spelling of
fortuneteller .
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Examples
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Other internal names for it were “psychic” and “Miss Cleo,” in tribute to a television fortune-teller.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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If you understand Spanish or French the resident fortune-teller and tarot card reader will reveal missed opportunities and future challenges in the ambience of a candlelit, red velvet 1920s bordello-like lounge.
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In Maher's book, the reader learns Nadja is an illegitimate child and grows up to become a fortune-teller.
An interview with Jan Maher; first published in The Huntington Herald-Press 2010
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A fortune-teller had given Declan the charm, telling him to keep it close to his heart for luck.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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Other internal names for it were “psychic” and “Miss Cleo,” in tribute to a television fortune-teller.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Zel, a fortune-teller, is aided in her prognostication by a band of ghosts, but when a mysterious light appears, she may have to give up the only family she knows.
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Revisit the fortune-teller and the jewel-queens, Galen the gryphon and the muses at the end of the world, Shayara and Places You Haunt!
Come on a train trip with us! jenphalian 2009
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There are a lot of memorable minor characters as well - the model who the killer is obsessed with, the landlady's long lost love, the fortune-teller who the victim worked for, even the Iraqi refugee who emerges rather abruptly in the final pages.
Cambridge Lib Dems... nwhyte 2010
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If you understand Spanish or French the resident fortune-teller and tarot card reader will reveal missed opportunities and future challenges in the ambience of a candlelit, red velvet 1920s bordello-like lounge.
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He gave me a hug good-bye that day at the fair, even though he thought I was a fortune-teller crone.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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