palmy
Example Sentences
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An award-winning journalist, Palmy transplanted to L.A. from Jamaica after a seasoned career there.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022
“Everyone said, New York city to Palmy, you’re going to die over there,” she said, using a local slang term for Palmerston North.
From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2020
The Banks were trying to Collect on a lot of Slow Notes that he had floated in his Palmy Days, and they had a Proud Chance to Collect.
From More Fables by Ade, George
But eleven struck; and the two Christians, my old friend, and Palmy, said we should be late for church.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
Palmy, at this period, wore an archdeacon's hat, and smoked a churchwarden's pipe; and neither were his own, nor did he derive anything ecclesiastical or Anglican from the association.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes