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  • 1days of yore — Times past • • • Main Entry: ↑yore …

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  • 2The Days of Yore — is a British play by Richard Cumberland. It was first staged at the Covent Garden Theatre on 13 January 1796.[1] The work is set in the Anglo Saxon era.[2] The work was possibly influenced by Horace Walpole s gothic novel The Mysterious… …

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  • 3days of yore — the old days, days gone by, a long time ago, way back when …

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  • 4days of yore — noun the past; bygone days (nostalgic) …

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  • 5Yore — (y[=o]r), adv. [OE. [yogh]ore, yare, [yogh]are, AS. ge[ a]ra;akin to ge[ a]r a year, E. year. [root]204. See {Year}.] In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic] [1913 Webster] As it hath been of olde times yore. Chaucer. [1913… …

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  • 6yore — [jo: US jo:r] n [: Old English; Origin: gearu long ago , from gear; YEAR] of yore literary existing a long time ago ▪ in days of yore …

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  • 7yore — [ jɔr ] noun of yore LITERARY from a period in history a very long time ago: days of yore …

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  • 8yore — Synonyms and related words: auld lang syne, days beyond recall, days of old, days of yore, early times, eld, foretime, good old times, lang syne, long ago, old days, old story, old times, olden times, same old story, the olden time, times of old …

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  • 9yore — [[t]jɔ͟ː(r)[/t]] PHRASE: n PHR, than PHR Of yore is used to refer to a period of time in the past. [JOURNALISM or, LITERARY] The images provoked strong surges of nostalgia for the days of yore... Suburbia is a sadder place than of yore. Syn: of… …

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  • 10yore — noun /jɔː,joʊɹ,jɔːɹ/ time long past This word comes from the days of yore …

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