quondam

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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

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

The Regent† Admiral Koundouristis requested M. Kafandaris, Royalist, quondam Minister of the Interior to form a Cabinet to succeed the Venizelos Government; Premier Venizelos resigned, on his doctor's advice.

From Time Magazine Archive

We arrived at our destination; where our hostess, seeing the state of my quondam master, refused us the room.

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