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English
Prepositional phrase
of yore
- (archaic) Long ago; in days long past.
- Synonyms: of old, way back; see also Thesaurus:long ago
In days of yore
1733 (indicated as 1732), [Alexander] Pope, Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, London: J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver , →OCLC, page 18:The Dev'l was piqu'd, ſuch ſaintſhip to behold, / And long'd to tempt him like good Job of old: / But Satan novv is vviſer than of yore, / And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 133:Representing the older types now are some Stroudley 0-6-0 tanks, while a Drummond "C14" 0-4-0 tank might still be pottering about on the Town Quays as of yore.
2022 June 14, “Tesla Split and Cybertruck Details”, in Tesla Time News:Now when I was a kid I had a bike with a banana seat, but for some reason, as you get older, and you get bikes, it's like you can never go back to those awesome seats of yore.