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- noun Plural form of
afternoone .
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Examples
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And therefore after dinner there is no talking with them, but euery man goeth to his bench to take his afternoones sleepe, which is as ordinary with them as their nights rest.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now if I c'ud but start a Hare by the way, kill her, and carry her home to my supper, I should thinke I had made a better afternoones worke of it than gathering of bullies.
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts
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Ye Philadelphia younge ladye loveth to ryde of pleasaunte afternoones out untoe Pointe Breeze, adown ye Necke, in ye Parke, or along ye wynding Wissahickon.
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There is severall other Bowling greens at a distance off a mile or two, fitted for Companys Lodging there, as Rust hall and Southbourough; they have all houses to ye greens, so the Gentlemen Bowle, the Ladies dance or walke in ye green in ye afternoones, and if wet dance in the houses, there being
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Numbring not weighing let them haue long mornynges that haue not good afternoones
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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And therefore after dinner there is no talking with them, but euery man goeth to his bench to take his afternoones sleepe, which is as ordinary with them as their nights rest.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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But if any one, who hath a good stomacke, shall be desirous to take it twice a day; or if any shall bee necessarily compelled so to doe for some urgent cause, by the approbation of his Physitian, let him dine somewhat sparingly, and drinke it not againe, untill five houres after dinner be past, or not untill the concoction of meat and drinke in the stomacke be perfected: Observing likewise, that hee content himselfe in the afternoones with almost halfe the quantity he useth to take in the mornings.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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