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latter-day
latter-day
See also: latterday
English
Adjective
latter-day (not comparable)
- Modern, recent.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
- He thinks of himself as a latter-day knight errant, out on a quest, fighting dragons […] It's not very practical but it is romantic.
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