Definitions
at a previous time
Word origin
From erst (“first, formerly”) + while.
Used in a sentence
““Scarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fiancée^([sic]) his formal congé.[…]””
“As an aftermath of the erstwhile competition between companies, 41 goods depots served the Liverpool and Birkenhead docks in 1923.”
“If you're for one of my erstwhile opponents, that's O.K. Just don't work too hard.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Once”9 letters
02“Former”9 letters
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