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

And every day people ask me right and left about the quondam 'most beautiful girl' in Trier, the 'Queen of the ball.'

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Tony, quondam choirboy, fled to a priest to confess it all.

From Time Magazine Archive

He put his laser beam away, bent, and, with curiosity, examined the body of his quondam superior.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick