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[BAW-mee] 
1. soothing or fragrant
2. mild and pleasant; 'a balmy breeze': "For the first time that entire day, Joanne stopped worrying and deeply inhaled the balmy evening air."
adverb form: balmily
noun form: balminess
Origin:
Approximately 1500; from 'balm'; from Old French, 'basme'; from Latin, 'balsamum'; from Greek, 'balsamon': balsam. In action:
"So begins an old Alaska pastime: wondering about the winter. Though for climatologists here it's strictly science, beginning with El Nino.
During some El Ninos -- the periodic warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean that now occurs about three times a decade -- Anchorage receives above normal snowfall, Papineau says. During other El Nino winters it gets very little.
That definitely describes the most recent (2002-2003) El Nino, when Anchorage recorded a balmy daily average of almost 31 degrees from October through February -- 9 degrees warmer than usual -- with very little snow until a big storm finally arrived in mid-March."
George Bryson. "Forecast paints balmy picture for Alaska," Anchorage Daily News (October 15, 2006).
"Cape Cod, famous everywhere for its beaches, also has 80 miles of bike trails, about 55 miles of them paved and the rest legally sanctioned mountain bike trails. They can keep a cyclist pedaling for a few days -- between stops to watch the waves and sample the chowder -- and that's without ever even getting onto one of the lovely and winding back roads.
The best time to go may be right now. In autumn, surrounded as it is by the summer-heated ocean, the cape stays warm longer than places inland. Balmy days are not unusual right up to Thanksgiving. And traffic thins on the back roads and all but disappears on the bike trails."
Paul Schneider. "On Two Wheels, It's Still High Season on Cape Cod," The New York Times (October 20, 2006).
"Hear the mellow wedding bells
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!"
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). The Bells.
"'Tis the soldier's life
To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616). British dramatist, poet. [Othello, in] Othello.
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