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PALMARY (adj.)
Definition(s):
- (adj.) excellent; holding the first or highest place; worthy of praise
Useful information for game players:
- Front hooks: (none)
- Back hooks: (none)
- Anagrams: PALMYRA
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- Wraparounds: (none)
- Other Spellings: (none)
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Epilogue:
The ancient Greeks and Romans often presented a branch of the palm tree to victorious gladiators or athletes. Thus, “to bear the palm” means to be the best, and almost all medals of the modern Olympic games have included an image of Nike (the Greek goddess of victory) bearing a palm. The palm as a symbol of victory also lives on in today’s word PALMARY and in the related PALMY (“flourishing, successful, prosperous”), as when Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet of “the most high and palmy state of Rome.”
This week’s theme: palmary words starting with the letter P
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