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[pah-mee] / ˈpɑ mi /




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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 Palmists appear to be doing so uncommonly well just now, that this year will be memorable, for them at least, as "the Palmy days" of chiromancy.

From Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 by Various

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

But the actors murmur to each other in Davoser Deutsch, 'She won't come, Palmy!

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes




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