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- noun Plural form of
arternoon .
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Examples
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"Couldn't you git off Saturday arternoons?" he asked.
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates
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Barnum's moral museum, where only moral peeple air admitted, partickly on Wednesday arternoons.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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I've looked for him now, high and low, every evening and many arternoons, better nor a week.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." G.J. Whyte-Melville 1849
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"Wall, we'd better set to," sniffed Mrs. Updyke, fitting on a huge steel thimble open at the top; "they ain't much arternoons to these short days, anyhow.
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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"She tel 'im de site uv a man wuz medsin fer bad eyes, dat nurly all uv 'em wuz cut down in de war an' dat in konsquens it wuz er lonesum time fer wimmin; dey hev nobody now ringin 'de do' bells in de eebnin; no boys sendin ''em flowers an' 'fekshuns; no sweetarts tekin' 'em walkin 'on Sunday arternoons, an' weddins gwine out er fashun.
John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908
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