mensal line
- noun
- Jargon
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línea mensual
- In palmistry, the mensal line is believed to reveal a person's sensitivity to emotion.
Examples
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Some say a deeply curved mensal line suggests a highly passionate nature.
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The mensal line can reveal a lot about a person's emotional state.
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The fortune-teller carefully examined the mensal line on his hand before making her prediction.
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Many believe that the mensal line reflects one's inner feelings.
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In palmistry, the mensal line is believed to reveal a person's sensitivity to emotion.
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Some say a deeply curved mensal line suggests a highly passionate nature.
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The fortune-teller carefully examined the mensal line on his hand before making her prediction.
Synonyms
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8.9
A crease on the palm that palm readers say shows feelings
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8.7
A line on the palm that people say shows a person's emotions or romantic life
A line on the palm that palm readers say shows a person's feelings
How Pronounced
- Jargon
27
1.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
mensal + line
The headword 'mensal' is not a common English lexical item (marked as not found) and provides no transparent semantic cue that would link to palmistry or emotional nature; knowing only 'line' (a crease) is insufficient to derive the specialized meaning. This is a rare, domain-specific term likely lexicalized within palmistry, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would not be able to infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Mensal line may come from an old word for 'mind'; palm readers used mensal and line to name a curved mark on the hand. They saw this visible line as a sign of a person's 'feelings', so the name came to mean a mark that shows a person's 'feelings'.