| 单词 | palmy state |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalmy state 2. figurative. Triumphant, flourishing, successful (frequently used of past times, as in palmy days, palmy state, etc.). See palm n.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity wealthfula1400 boona1513 summer1592 sunshine1594 palmy1604 white?1614 booming1879 boomy1888 the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > time of prosperity highOE golden age1561 halcyon days1570 gilded age1655 heyday1751 high point1787 millennium1821 palmy days1837 up1843 clover summer1866 flower-time1873 belle époque1910 glory-days1956 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 106 + 6 In the most high and palmy state of Rome. 1617 W. Drummond Forth Feasting sig. B3 And like Augustus palmie Raigne bee deem'd. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 6 In the high and palmy state of the Monarchy of France, it fell to the ground without a struggle. 1837 C. Dickens Let. 31 Jan. (1965) I. 232 I hope you will meet with every happiness that you picture to yourself in these palmy days. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) ix. 301 The period was a palmy one for men, who held a pen of power. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 341 The 16th century was indeed Pasquin's palmy time. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 85 The great singers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—the palmy days of Italian singing. 1964 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 16 July (1995) 348 In Beaufort Road was a house, occupied in its palmier days, by Mr Shorthouse, a manufacturer of acids. 1993 Vandance Jan. 27/1 Dennis Nahat..was a stalwart at American Ballet Theatre in the palmy Lucia Chase era. < as lemmas |
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