adjective
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prosperous, flourishing, or luxurious
a palmy life
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covered with, relating to, or resembling palms
a palmy beach
Etymology
Origin of palmy
Vocabulary lists containing palmy
Example Sentences
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An award-winning journalist, Palmy transplanted to L.A. from Jamaica after a seasoned career there.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022
“Everyone said, New York city to Palmy, you’re going to die over there,” she said, using a local slang term for Palmerston North.
From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2020
Palmy, at this period, wore an archdeacon's hat, and smoked a churchwarden's pipe; and neither were his own, nor did he derive anything ecclesiastical or Anglican from the association.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
No optimist was ever more convinced of his philosophy than Palmy.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
We search a neighbouring shed, extract a stable-ladder, and in two seconds Palmy has climbed to the topmost rung, while Christian and Georg hold it firm upon the snow beneath.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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