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

For reasons unstated, the Cabinet presided over by Premier Ernst Trygger, quondam Chief Justice of Sweden, resigned.

From Time Magazine Archive

A bright, bouncing, youthful revue celebrating the G.I.'s return to civilian life, it is acted by quondam G.I.s, male & female, and USO entertainers who are just back themselves.

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