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bygone [ˈbaɪˌgɒn] adj (usually prenominal) past; former n
1. (often plural) a past occurrence 2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Antiques) (often plural) an artefact, implement, etc., of former domestic or industrial use, now often collected for interest let bygones be bygones to agree to forget past quarrels ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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There are no words to describe her save the old ones that have served so often to picture the bygone heroine of romance and the fair lady of our dreams. At home, however, all will look bright and bustling as we children are set to shell peas or poppies, and the damp twigs crackle in the stove, and our mother comes to look fondly at our work, and our old nurse, Iliana, tells us stories of bygone days, or terrible legends concerning wizards and dead men. In the last years of my father's life I had traveled with him in Italy, and I had seen in the Museum at Naples the wonderful relics of a bygone time discovered among the ruins of Pompeii. |
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