palmy evening
- noun
- Archaic
:
tarde placentera
- After a stressful week, the couple longed for a palmy evening of tranquility.
Examples
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They spent a palmy evening on the terrace, enjoying the gentle breeze.
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A palmy evening by the lake made their vacation truly memorable.
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What a palmy evening it is!
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We enjoyed a palmy evening by the lake.
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They spent a palmy evening on the terrace, enjoying the gentle breeze.
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After a stressful week, the couple longed for a palmy evening of tranquility.
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A palmy evening by the lake made their vacation truly memorable.
Synonyms
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An evening at home that feels warm, comfortable, and relaxed
Antonyms
How Pleasant
Surface Forms
Morphology
If a learner knows 'palmy' as 'flourishing/prosperous' and 'evening', they can infer a positively characterized evening, so some basic sense is compositionally recoverable. However, 'palmy' is rare/archaic and the jump from 'period of success' to 'pleasant, peaceful evening' is a metaphorical extension and not a standard collocation, making the exact nuance only partially predictable.
Etymology
The phrase palmy evening may come from the image of sitting under palm trees on a warm night, where the word palmy once suggested comfort and 'good times', so palmy evening means a pleasant, peaceful evening.