"Raise the palm"

Posted by Jeanne Bornstein on December 27, 2000

I would like to find out the derivation and meaning of "raise the palm", which I ran across in a 19th-century text. The context was that a certain behavior would cause a young woman to "raise the palm."

Thanks in advance for any information.

Jeanne Bornstein

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