palmtree

palmtree (plural palmtrees)

1. Alternative form of palm tree.
   • 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:

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

   • 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:

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

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

     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.

   • 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:

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