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quondam

[kwon-duhm, -dam] / ˈkwɒn dəm, -dæm /


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You get the porthole windows of the quondam Seamen’s Union building and a tiny storefront that grandly introduces itself as the National School of Dancing.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2016

Hitchens was, not for the first time, drawing on the conceptual repertoire of his quondam Trotskyism to justify his stance.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

"Paul and Bill are very chummy," says Painter Elaine de Kooning, 61, of the decade-long friendship between her husband, Artist Willem de Kooning, 77, and quondam Beatle Paul McCartney, 39.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the authorities finally arrived, M�rio Eduardo Firmenich, leader of the quondam Argentine urban guerrilla organization known as the Montoneros, surrendered without a struggle.

From Time Magazine Archive

I head now for the Virginia Colony in the company of my quondam charge, the Negro boy Octavian—in which country, he avoweth, he shall rise in arms against the vile practice of slavery.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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