Brewer's: Quondam

(Latin). Former. We say, He is a quondam schoolfellow - my former schoolfellow; my quondam friend, the quondam candidate, etc.; also the quondam chancellor, etc.

“My quondam barber, but `his lordship' now.”

Dryden.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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