palmy

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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

Timur begins constructing the maze from blueprints as early as May, leaving his parents’ backyard -- a palmy, Spanish-tiled retreat -- with not much of an off-season.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2016

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 Ross, Martin