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Palmetto
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| palmetto (pælˈmɛtəʊ) | |
| —n , pl -tos, -toes | |
| 1. | cabbage palmetto See also saw palmetto any of several small chiefly tropical fan palms, esp any of the genus Sabal, of the southeastern US |
| 2. | any of various other fan palms such as palms of the genera Serenoa, Thrinax, and Chamaerops |
| [C16: from Spanish palmito a little | |
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palmetto
1583, from Sp. palmito "dwarf fan palm tree," dim. of palma "palm tree," from L. palma (see palm (2)). The suffix was subsequently Italianized. The Palmetto Flag was an emblem of South Carolina after secession (1860); S.C. called Palmetto State from at least 1837.
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