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Etymology
From Middle English *foreday (attested only in plural foredais), equivalent to fore- + day.
Noun
foreday (plural foredays)
- (in the plural, chiefly poetic, archaic) Past or former days
1847 [c. 1200], Frederic Madden, Layamon's Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain, translation of original by Layamon:This same token should be of Luces the emperor, and of the Senators [of Rome], who with him came from Rome [thither]; ' and in the same wise, they there gan fall;' what Merlin in foredays said, all they it found there, as they did ere, and subsequently well everywhere; ere Arthur were born, Merlin it all [all it is] predicted.
1897, Dugald Ferguson, Poems of the Heart, page 79:When the English horsemen shivered
On the foredays' glorious strife,
By his spearmen, and De Clifford
Yielded both the wreath and life.
2016, David Udo, “The Last Days”, in The Ripples:We bend our knees to the ground
Seeking refuge from the One on High
To redeem us from the
Prophesies of the fore-days
Consigning these daysafter
The last days, as the evil days.
- (dialect) The earlier part of the day; the morning or early afternoon.
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