palmy

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

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

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 1860 he was called to the bar and joined the northern circuit, then in its palmy days of undividedness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 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

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

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

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

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 its palmiest days prizefights were banished from certain counties by hostile magistrates, just as they have been driven from the United States and England to Belgium on certain occasions in our own time.

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw