Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The great sallow, Salix Caprea. See
palm , 3.
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Examples
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Add that this colouring kept an April freshness; add, too, her mother's height and more than her mother's grace of movement, an outline virginally severe yet flexuous as a palm-willow in April winds; and you have
Hetty Wesley Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Spotted orchis leaves are up, and the palm-willow bears its yellow pollen.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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