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fortune sticks

fortune sticks is the plural of fortune stick.

Meaning of fortune stick

Noun

fortune stick (plural fortune sticks)

  1. One of a set of numbered bamboo slips that correspond to messages concerning the future, drawn by a supplicant in Taoist divination.
    • 6 Fortune sticks used in Chinese temples. Yunan.1871 September 11, Indian Museum: Minutes of the Trustees, page 143

Questions about fortune sticks

What is fortune sticks the plural of?
Fortune sticks is the plural of fortune stick.

Words near fortune sticks in the dictionary

  1. fortune hunters
  2. fortune hunting
  3. fortune seeker
  4. fortune seekers
  5. fortune stick
  6. fortune sticks
  7. fortune teller
  8. fortune tellers
  9. fortune telling
  10. fortune-hunter
  11. fortune-hunters

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