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Word of the Day for Tuesday April 9, 2002:

quondam \KWAHN-duhm; KWAHN-dam\, adjective:
Having been formerly; former; sometime.

A quondam flower child, she spent seven years at the Royal
College of Art, before becoming a lecturer at Edinburgh
School of Art.
--"Interview: Cool, calm collector," [1]Independent,
December 13, 1997

For the unregenerate "peasant"... had gone there with
the successful glass distributor, shrewd investor,
versatile talker, and quondam [2]bon vivant whose motto was
"The best is good enough for me."
--Ted Solotaroff, [3]Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir

There was an exception to this in the form of Mrs Edna
Parsons, a formidable Englishwoman who had once been the
Prince's nanny and now served as proctor, supervising his
behaviour. She was about fifty and true to her quondam
profession, she could be quite strict.
--David Freeman, [4]One of Us
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Quondam comes from the Latin quondam, "formerly," from quom,
"when."

References

1. http://www.independent.co.uk/www/
2. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=bon%20vivant
3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393320502/lexico
4. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078670490X/ref%3Dnosim/lexico


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