palmer

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. 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, p. 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", I:

     Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye!

From noun palm

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• LaPerm, Marple, ampler, lamper, relamp

• palmera

palma +‎ -er

palmer m (plural palmers)

1. palm tree

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): /ˈpaːl.mər/

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 ...

   • Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, ll. 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

1. indefinite plural of palm