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Metoposcopy   Listen
noun
Metoposcopy  n.  The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Metoposcopy" Quotes from Famous Books



... sword mounted with a gilded hilt and covered with a velvet scabbard, and with fifty good single angels; then in a familiar and friendly way did he ask of him his opinion touching the affair. At the very first Herr Trippa, looking on him very wistly in the face, said unto him: Thou hast the metoposcopy and physiognomy of a cuckold,—I say, of a notorious and infamous cuckold. With this, casting an eye upon Panurge's right hand in all the parts thereof, he said, This rugged draught which I see here, just under the mount of Jove, ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais



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