Palmer, the name given to a pilgrim to the Holy Land who had performed his vow, in sign of which he usually bore a palm branch in his hand, which he offered on the altar on his return home.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Palma, Jacopo * Palmer, Edward HenryPalmer in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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