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palmer

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English palmer, from Anglo-Norman palmer, from Old French paumier (“palmer”), from Medieval Latin palmārius (“palmer”), from palma (“palm tree”).

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palmer (plural palmers)

  1. (now historical) A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary.
    • 1674, Thomas Staveley, The Romish horseleech : or, an impartial account of the intolerable charge of Popery to this nation, page 93:
      The Pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the Palmer had none. The Pilgrim travelled to some certain, designed place or places, but the Palmer to all. The Pilgrim went as his own charge, but the Palmer professed wilful poverty and went upon alms.
    • 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 49:
      Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! / Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! / They could not in the self-same mansion dwell / Without some stir of heart, some malady; [...]
    • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 160:
      If I had known more about them when I put on mine in the rag shop, I would have bought a soft, wide-brimmed hat to go with it; but I did not, and the shopkeeper's sister told me I looked a good palmer.
  2. (archaic) Abbreviation of palmerworm.
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Etymology 2

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From noun.

Noun

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palmer (plural palmers)

  1. A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms.

Etymology 3

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From the transitive verb to palm.

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palmer (plural palmers)

  1. One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

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Etymology

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From palma +‎ -er.

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palmer m (plural palmers)

  1. palm tree

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Latin

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Verb

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palmer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of palmō

Middle English

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FWOTD – 28 March 2017
 
A medieval stained glass window depicting pilgrims, from the Cathedral of Canterbury, England.

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Etymology

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Named for the palm branches they were wont to bring back from the Levant to signify their pilgrimage. From Anglo-Norman palmer, from Old French paumier, from Medieval Latin palmārius (“palmer”), from palma (“palm tree”).

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palmer (plural palmeres)

  1. A pilgrim who has been to the Holy Land.
  2. (by extension) Any pilgrim or crusader.

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  • English: palmer

Norwegian Bokmål

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palmer m

  1. indefinite plural of palme

Norwegian Nynorsk

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palmer f

  1. (non-standard since 1959) indefinite plural of palme

Swedish

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palmer

  1. indefinite plural of palm
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