"Quondam," for instance, which meant "erstwhile," which meant "former," and which, in the 30 years since I took the SAT, I have never run across again.
quondam J.B. Valvasorii / concinnatia et exhibita a Io.
As Todd Niesle's quondam girlfriend, I, Debby, am wondering this, too.
21, 30, 80. Of primitive men: quondam hoc indigenae vivebant more, Juv. 13, 38.
An etymologist writes: Where is your promised discussion of the word "quondam"?
She continues, in a fashion altogether her own, to be regina quondam reginaque futura - a "once and future queen".
After all, an empty plinth cannot show that we have chosen to dishonor a quondam "great man". It shows nothing.
Emblemata moralia / scripta quondam hispanice a Johanne de Boria, latinitate autem donata a L.C.C.P. by Borja, Juan de, b. 1533.
At least he can protest that Rebekah Brooks, quondam chair of Women in Journalism, reassured him it was harmless.
Hitchens was, not for the first time, drawing on the conceptual repertoire of his quondam Trotskyism to justify his stance.
And now, as I type the word "quondam" into my computer, it's the smell of Mennen — my father's deodorant — that comes to me.
