erewhile

Alternative forms

 * erewhiles

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1)  Some time ago; beforehand; formerly.
 * 2) * 1600s, A Garden:
 * She runs you through, nor asks the word.
 * O thou, that dear and happy Isle,
 * The garden of the world erewhile,
 * Thou Paradise of the four seas
 * Which Heaven planted us to please,
 * 1) * 1800s, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Flâneur:
 * The dame sans merci's broken strain,
 * Whom I erewhile, perchance, have known,
 * When Orleans filled the Bourbon throne,
 * A siren singing by the Seine.
 * A siren singing by the Seine.

Synonyms

 * erstwhile
 * erstwhiles