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
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Our palmy years began way before Hollywood and the enormous hillside onetime real estate sign of that name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
In the century that followed, Mr. Carter’s house was turned into a museum with a green, palmy garden, thanks to water brought in from the Nile.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
Onstein added that the scientists also learned that spines and other plant defense structures had probably existed in the palmy vegetation prior to the extinction event.
From Salon ● May 3, 2022
"So many players have weak, palmy grips and open clubfaces," says Tillery.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 12, 2017
In its palmy days it had more trade with the East Indies than all the other American ports put together.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
In palmier times, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, appeared at a Russian cultural center in the capital of the Central African Republic, sitting with schoolchildren and promising them free laptops.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
Farine Bakery & Cafe expands with a second Eastside location near Overlake Medical Center, serving tartines and baguette sandwiches from breads made in house along with croissants, palmier and brioche.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
Buttery, shatteringly crunchy and sugary, it tasted like a croissant and a palmier had teamed up to create a pastry fit for the gods.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022
With the bill comes a house-made marshmallow or petite palmier.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2016
The former, a dirty ex-model, who had in palmier days posed as Judas, now dispensed stale bread at one sou and made enough to keep himself in cigarettes.
From The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
In all Washington's palmiest days of buck-passing, no such buck-passing had been seen as came now: steel was short, labor shirked, management mismanaged, Washington had failed to plan well.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the mid-1970s, aided by handouts from the oil-rich gulf states, Syria enjoyed its palmiest years ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the days to come there would be the annual Christmas gathering of the Kennedy clan, with grandchildren galore, heaps of presents, and the palmiest weather that Florida could offer.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a guide to voters, France-Soir published a glossary of political terms that made the French campaign sound much like one in Boston's Ward 17 during Mayor James M. Curley's palmiest days.
From Time Magazine Archive
We talked of the old London, the old Boston, both past their palmiest literary days.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
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