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
Example Sentences
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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
Displaced Parvati heads back to the palmy beach village of her youth, Prabha and Anu tagging along with her things.
From Los Angeles Times
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
The hair is performance art, a palmier one day, a Medusa nest of towering curls the next.
From Washington Post
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
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