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English
Etymology
Named after Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand, a fortune-teller during the Napoleonic era.
Noun
Lenormand (countable and uncountable, plural Lenormands)
- A type of fortune-telling cards named after Marie Anne Lenormand.
There are three kinds of Lenormand cards: Petit Lenormand, Grand Jeu Lenormand and Petit Jeu Lenormand.
1960, Otto C. Lightner, Pearl Ann Reeder, Hobbies - Volume 65, page 126:The large card is from a Lenormand fortune-telling deck (French, c. 1860) with mythological and astrological symbols.
1996, Michael Dummett, Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis, A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot, page 141:German, Austrian and even Belgian and Swiss cardmakers have made and still make these 'Petit Lenormands'.
2013, Marcus Katz, Tali Goodwin, Learning Lenormand: Traditional Fortune Telling for Modern Life, →ISBN:It is wonderful how literal and direct the Lenormand cards will be if you allow them to speak clearly and simply.
2013, Patrick Dunn, Cartomancy with the Lenormand and the Tarot, →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.
Translations
A type of fortune-telling cards
- Finnish: Lenormandin kortit pl
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Proper noun
Lenormand ?
- a surname