Lenormand

English

Etymology

Named for Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand, a fortune-teller during the Napoleonic era who invented them.

Noun

Lenormand (countable and uncountable, plural Lenormands)

1. A type of fortune-telling cards developed by Marie Anne Lenormand.

   There are three kinds of Lenormand: 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.

Anagrams

• almendron, nondermal

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lə.nɔʁ.mɑ̃/

Proper noun

Lenormand ?

1. a surname