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
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
As she chatted, her sometimes harrowing past seemed as vivid to her as the previous night’s supper, her story suggesting that in palmy, or punishing, times, living intensely is the best revenge.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
"So many players have weak, palmy grips and open clubfaces," says Tillery.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 12, 2017
It recalled the incidents that in the palmy days of the Hippodrome gloriously ended in a plunge into deep water, amid a salvo of firearms.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross
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
Slyne had more than once in his palmier days strayed boldly over all boundaries into the outskirts of quite august circles, and felt assured that he was fitted to shine among even the most select.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
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
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
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
In the mid-1970s, aided by handouts from the oil-rich gulf states, Syria enjoyed its palmiest years ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was accepted as the equal in America of what Garrick had been in his palmiest days—the peer and companion of whatever was best in American society.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various
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