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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. An obsolete form of palm.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete To palm off by fraud.
  2. v. obsolete To cheat at cards.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.

Etymologies

  1. See palm to cheat. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “A quiet corner in the armpit or coin paumé of Marseilles.”

    French Word-A-Day:

  • “There's also the English expression "armpit of the universe," which in French translates to "le coin paumé" or "the middle of nowhere".”

    French Word-A-Day:

  • “It is observable of the participles of this language, that they are declined through the persons and numbers, in the same manner as verbs: thus, paumse-uh, I walking; paumse-an, thou walking; paumseet, he walking; paum - seauk, we walking; paumseauque, ye walking; paumse - cheek, they walking.”

    Internet Archive: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society

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