S vs Palmy - What's the difference?
s | palmy |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap.
Of, related to, or covered with palm trees.
Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 46:
*:‘It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.’
* 1967 , (William Styron), The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 48:
*:So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.
