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

"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

Murcheh Khurt, Palm Sunday, March 30.—Three very pleasant marches, equal to seventy-six miles, have brought me here, and now Isfahan is only two days off, and it will end my palmy days of Persian travelling.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)