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palmy

[pah-mee] / ˈpɑ mi /




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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

"So many players have weak, palmy grips and open clubfaces," says Tillery.

From Golf Digest Aug. 12, 2017

Strachey’s despair sharply contradicts the palmy official reports he and other officials were sending to London about British military superiority.

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2010

In these palmy days of their prosperity much time and attention was given to dress, upon which they lavished much of their wealth.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.

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

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

From Washington Post Dec. 30, 2022

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

The favorite beverage at fires was rum and molasses, commonly called black-strap, which is referred to in the following lines, commemorative of the engine company in its palmier days.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

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 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 the mid-1970s, aided by handouts from the oil-rich gulf states, Syria enjoyed its palmiest years ever.

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

Even in Louisville herself, now in her palmiest days, the Pilgrim’s Landing is commemorated each returning year, while the equal daring, danger and victory of the Western Pioneer has sunk into oblivion.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben




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