(hwi-LOAM)(adv.) Middle English (12th-16th centuries) for "Once upon a time."
Примеры использования:
"Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duc that highte Theseus ...." (the beginning of Chaucer's Knyghtes Tale). | "Whilom, there was a little girl called Hilda. Her father was a blacksmith, a huge, powerful man whose scarred hands could unbend horseshoes or pound a block of iron into almost papery thinness. Her mother was a smith as well, but she worked marvels of gold and silver filigree for rings and things the nobles would bring to her every day." [hey, that's not half bad. I ought to write the whole story.]
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