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Portuguese
Adverb
hontem
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ontem.
- 1912, João do Rio, A Bela Madame Vargas, Acto Primeiro:
Ainda hontem no Lyrico você parecia um detective americano, sempre de binoculo a varejar o nosso camarote. Por que faz isso?- Even yesterday at the Lyrico you seemed like an American detective, always in search through your binoculars from our balcony. Why do you do that?
1930 November 25, “Uma nomeação na pasta do Exterior”, in Diario Carioca, volume III, number 740, page 3:O chefe do governo provisorio assignou, hontem, um decreto na pasta do Exterior, nomeando Antonio Mary Ulrich, [sic] para auxiliar de consulado.- The head of the provisional government signed, yesterday, a decree in the Foreign Affairs department, nominating Antonio Mary Ulrich for consulate assistant.
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