"palmy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From palm + -y.",
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      "form": "palmier",
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      "form": "palmiest",
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          "ref": "1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn",
          "text": "From Greenland’s icy mountains,\nFrom India’s coral strand,\nWhere Afric’s sunny fountains\nRoll down their golden sand;\nFrom many an ancient river,\nFrom many a palmy plain,\nThey call us to deliver\nTheir land from error’s chain.",
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        "Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees."
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        {
          "ref": "1832, The London Spy, volume 2, page 292",
          "text": "Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.",
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        {
          "ref": "1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 48",
          "text": "So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.",
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        {
          "ref": "1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Not many people would argue with his opening insight—that in 1939 people attending the World's Fair gobbled up the optimistic view of the future offered in Flushing Meadows, while people now, in much palmier times than in the late Depression, with World War II looming, are generally pessimistic.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving."
      ],
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          "flourishing",
          "flourishing"
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          "booming",
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        "(figurative) Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving."
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        "Made out of palm leaves or palm sap."
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          "palm",
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          "sap",
          "sap"
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        "(obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑːmi/",
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  "word": "palmy"
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  "etymology_text": "From palm + -y.",
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    {
      "form": "palmier",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "palmiest",
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          "ref": "1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn",
          "text": "From Greenland’s icy mountains,\nFrom India’s coral strand,\nWhere Afric’s sunny fountains\nRoll down their golden sand;\nFrom many an ancient river,\nFrom many a palmy plain,\nThey call us to deliver\nTheir land from error’s chain.",
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        "Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees."
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          "text": "So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.",
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          "text": "Not many people would argue with his opening insight—that in 1939 people attending the World's Fair gobbled up the optimistic view of the future offered in Flushing Meadows, while people now, in much palmier times than in the late Depression, with World War II looming, are generally pessimistic.",
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        "Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving."
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        ],
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        "(figurative) Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving."
      ],
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        "Made out of palm leaves or palm sap."
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          "sap",
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        "(obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap."
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