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/pˈɑːmi/
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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
- The palmy days of self-sustained, endless growth seemed to have gone for ever.
- Chandra was gunned down as she entered her car in the car park of Langmore Health Clinic Foundation in Palmyra, San Fernando.
- At Peradeniya the palm family has nearly a hundred representatives, including the areca, palmyra, talipot, royal, fan, traveler's, date and cocoanut. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
- a philanthropist, whom a true and noble woman, also a philanthropist, should have delighted to honor; whose disinterested and resolute efforts, for the redemption of poor humanity, all independent and faithful minds should sustain, since the "broadcloth" vulgar will be sure to assail them; a philosopher, worthy of the palmy times of ancient Greece; Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
- Community business was often conducted on the all-sand eighteen-hole golf course, with the Giza Pyramids and the palmy Nile as a backdrop.
- As this century closes and we enter the first computational millennium, one of the great conflicts in civilization will be the attempt to reorder society, culture and government in a manner that exploits this digital bonanza yet prevents it from running roughshod over the checks and balances so delicately constructed in those palmy precomputer years. Technomania
- The modern city of Palmyra is virtually deserted. Times, Sunday Times
- And there, also, were parks, pleasure-grounds, and public squares, all so admirably defined by the agency of the winds and rains of ages, that the traveller might readily imagine himself to have arrived within the precincts of the deserted city of some peopleless country, whose splendor and magnificence once more than vied with the far-famed Palmyra of the desert, even in its best days. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
- The president failed to implement tax cuts during the palmy days: now his prodigality will force him to impose tax increases.
- The bay is beautiful - long and curving - and has thousands of Palmyra palm trees.