palmtree

plural palmtrees

1. alternativeAlternative form of palm tree.

   Here too, in later days, our Heber strayed / To dream of eastern suns, and palmtree shade; […]

   1834, Isaac Nicholson Allen, untitled poem, in Congratulatory Addresses Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, at the Installation of His Grace the Duke of Wellington, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] J. Vincent, →OCLC, page 15

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   Nothing to see but the palmtrees one way / And the sea the other way, / Nothing to hear but the sound of the surf.

   1927 May–June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Wanna Go Home, Baby? Fragment of an Agon”, in Samuel Roth, editor, Two Worlds Monthly […], volume 3, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Two Worlds Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 149, column 2

   We learn that the next stage was Elim, where there were twelve springs and threescore ten palmtrees. […] Then at last, like pillars of smoke that wavered slightly in the hot air, the first palmtrees of Ayun Musa appeared.

   1943, Louis Golding, chapter 6, in In the Steps of Moses, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Jewish Publication Society of America, →OCLC, § 2, pages 135–136

   The palmtrees were not to be sniffed at either. They were the tallest palmtrees in the world; they fringed the beaches.

   1992, Bernardo Atxaga [pseudonym; Joseba Irazu Garmendia], translated by Margaret Jull Costa, “Klaus Hanhn”, in Obabakoak: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, “In Search of the Last Word” section, page 241