yore

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  1. noun Time long past: days of yore.

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  • In most tales of yore, the birds would fly ahead to spy and return to inform the hero of looming obstacles, thus bringing about the famous phrase, 'a little bird told me '! —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • I just wish he'd be an upstanding chap like old Kingsley Amis and co of yore, and be honest enough to admit it. —  SpikeMagazine.com
  • Yes, in the days of yore -- not so long ago, before the paradox called online dating came about, souls relied on the personal ads to find their match.
  • Ozon paying tribute to the Hollywood of yore, and in the grandest style possible, "writes Berlinale (as I'll be doing soon, too, no, really, etc)." —  GreenCine Daily
  • Largely a retro tribute to medium-format folders of yore, the new camera's innovation is that it will be switchable from 6x6cm to 6x7cm. —  The Online Photographer
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, long ago, time long past, from Old English gēara, geāra, long ago, from genitive pl. of gēar, year; see year.

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  1. from Middle English yore, ʒore, from Anglo-Saxon geára, of yore, formerly an adverbial genitive of time, literally ‘of years,’ genitive plural of geár, year: see year.
 

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