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Webster 1913 Edition
Palmy
Palm′y
,Adj.
1.
Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms;
as, a
. palmy
shorePope.
His golden sands and
palmy
wine. Goldsmith.
2.
Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.
In the most high and
palmy
state of Rome. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Palmy
PALMY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
palmy
palmy
English
Adjective
palmy (comparative palmier, superlative palmiest)
- (obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap. [15th-19th c.]
- Of, related to, or covered with palm trees. [from 16th c.]
- Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. [from 17th c.]
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 46:
- ‘It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.’
- 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 48:
- So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 46: