booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving
(adjective) very lively and profitable; “flourishing businesses”; “a palmy time for stockbrokers”; “a prosperous new business”; “doing a roaring trade”; “a thriving tourist center”; “did a thriving business in orchids”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Borrowed from the French word palmier for this pastry, ellipsis of feuille de palmier "palm tree leaf", the original name of this pastry.
palmier (plural palmiers)
A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.
• Palmeri, impaler, impearl, lempira, premail, premial
Source: Wiktionary
Palm"y, a.
1. Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.
2. Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous. In the most high and palmy state of Rome. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2024
(verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; “The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
