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palmy

[ pah-mee ]

adjective

palmier, palmiest.
  1. glorious, prosperous, or flourishing:

    the palmy days of yesteryear.

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. abounding in or shaded with palms:

    palmy islands.



palmy

/ ˈɑːɪ /

adjective

  1. prosperous, flourishing, or luxurious

    a palmy life

  2. covered with, relating to, or resembling palms

    a palmy beach

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of palmy1

First recorded in 1595–1605; palm 2 + -y 1
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Our palmy years began way before Hollywood and the enormous hillside onetime real estate sign of that name.

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Displaced Parvati heads back to the palmy beach village of her youth, Prabha and Anu tagging along with her things.

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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.

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The hair is performance art, a palmier one day, a Medusa nest of towering curls the next.

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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.

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