quondam
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"I'm retired too," said Quondam Photographer Armstrong-Jones�though in fact he still moonlights camera assignments.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Quondam" was rather a pity, perhaps; it sounds pedantic, and the Warden was no pedant, unless he wanted to snub people.
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Turley, Charles
This was the verse they carved on his tomb: "Hic jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rex, que Futurus."
From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John
They turned down into Little Quondam Street, and presently came to a red brick house with a pretentious portico.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
And just at the moment of eating The breast of a tender chicken, The Reverend Quondam observed The grey skies overhead thicken.
From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold
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