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  • noun Plural form of arternoon.

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Examples

  • "Couldn't you git off Saturday arternoons?" he asked.

    Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • "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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