[
UK
/pˈɑːmi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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very lively and profitable
a palmy time for stockbrokers
flourishing businesses
did a thriving business in orchids
a prosperous new business
a thriving tourist center
doing a roaring trade
How To Use palmy In A Sentence
- For commoners, it was umbrella hats made from palmyra or the dried leaf of arecanut palm conically folded like a conjurer's hat.
- It had evidently been the ballroom or reception-room of the defunct Marchesa in palmy days. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
- The palmyra palm being the most useful of the species is widely grown in tropical coastal zones.
- Thickets of flamboya, casuarina and sweet coconut give way to the arid Palmyra palm.
- The carving abounded in motifs from nature including swallows, hydrangeas, azaleas, geraniums, lilies, palmyras, and balloon vines.
- In 1987 Henry Cooper literally sailed into retirement on a spiffy, 50-foot ketch that he called the Palmyra.
- According to a dietician at the Hospital, fruits like watermelon, tender coconuts, palmyra, lime and cucumber are diuretic and hence play a vital role in eliminating body heat.
- There was more than one (perhaps as many as three) little pianos over the years at Russell Square - in his palmy days, old Sedley was certainly rich and doting enough to shower his daughter with expensive luxuries.
- Mass arrests, burlesquing, tortures, imprisonments and executions of Gentile Hellenes in Athens, Antioch, Palmyra and Constantinople. The Church-State Alliance and the future of humanity
- Readers of the narrative came from all over the world and from all walks of life to meet the man and stay at his palmy resort.