Definition of "line of life" []

• A line on the palm of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life. (noun)

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• "“Though I am a schoolmaster's son, I confess that school-teaching or school-inspecting is not the line of life I should naturally have chosen."
• "You must prepare Banti's mother, as it is a peace, for some other line of life than the navy."