palmer
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
palmer/ˈpɑːmə/
▶noun
- 1 historical a pilgrim, especially one who had returned from the Holy Land with a palm branch or leaf as a sign of having undertaken the pilgrimage.
■ an itinerant monk travelling from shrine to shrine under a vow of poverty.
- 2 a hairy artificial fly used in angling.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr., from med. L. palmarius ‘pilgrim’, from L. palma ‘palm’.
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