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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Displaced Parvati heads back to the palmy beach village of her youth, Prabha and Anu tagging along with her things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
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
In the palmy days before the ransacking, the abbess employs her to take notes on meetings with passing dignitaries, from whom she learns about many things, including gossip from the court about Anne Boleyn.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2018
"So many players have weak, palmy grips and open clubfaces," says Tillery.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 12, 2017
Their date of production extends, speaking roughly, from the 11th to the 14th century, their palmy days were the 11th and the 12th.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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
These were the palmier days of the embargo breakers; the ease and frequency with which they escaped soon brought prices down.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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
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
The condition of women in Rome, especially from 150 B.C. to 150 A.D., was quite different from what it was in Athens, even during her palmiest days.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
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