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- adjective
superlative form ofpalmy : mostpalmy .
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Examples
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No English fair in the palmiest days of fairs ever presented such an array of attractions.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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More cars were parked outside it than ever in the palmiest days of peacetime; inside, the bar was doing a roaring trade.
On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1957
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Tavia in her palmiest days could not have anticipated.
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Margaret Penrose
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Probably no class that has gone forth from the college or university in her palmiest days of prosperity has exerted so widely extended and so beneficial an influence, the times and circumstances taken into account, as this first class that graduated at Warren.
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The brilliance of the new era as compared with the thousand years that lead to it from the most high and palmiest days of Rome is such as to dim almost to darkness the brightest days of medieval culture.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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His speeches against the Fugitive Slave Law, and his withering rebukes of Daniel Webster and other northern men who supported that measure, are of the most splendid character, and will compare in point of composition with anything ever uttered by Chatham or Sheridan in their palmiest days.
Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met William Wells Brown
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Israel in its palmiest days was not more vigilantly, jealously fanatical than Egypt.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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_The Quarterly Review_ in its palmiest days -- was intrusted with its management.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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For behind that well understood signal of the bells is the typical institution then in its palmiest days -- the "Market Ordinary."
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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It was an arena of opposing gladiators more magnificent and majestic than was ever witnessed in the palmiest days of the Roman Empire.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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