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
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
