palmer

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːmə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑmɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə(ɹ)

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

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.

From noun.

palmer (plural palmers)

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

From the transitive verb to palm.

palmer (plural palmers)

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

• palmer (pilgrim) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “palmer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• LaPerm, Marple, ampler, lamper, relamp, repalm

• palmera

From palma +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəlˈme]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [palˈmeɾ]

palmer m (plural palmers)

1. palm tree

• “palmer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

palmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of palmō

• palmere

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mər(ə)/

palmer (plural palmeres)

1. A pilgrim who has been to the Holy Land.
   • ca. 1370–90, William Langland, Piers Plowman,

     Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together
     To seek for Saint James and the saintes in Rome ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 13–15:

     Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
     And palmeres for to seken strange stroundes
     To ferne halwes, kouthe in sondry londes.

     Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,
     And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
     To distant shrines well known in sundry lands.

2. (by extension) Any pilgrim or crusader.

• English: palmer

palmer m

1. indefinite plural of palme

palmer f

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

palmer

1. indefinite plural of palm