forenoone

English

Noun

forenoone (plural forenoones)

1. Obsolete spelling of forenoon.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Good now, some excellent fortune! Let mee
     be married to three Kings in a forenoone, and Widdow them […]

   • 1601, Arthur Dent, Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen, page 138:

     Theſe men ſerue God in the forenoone, and the diuell in the after noone;