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Oct. 10, 2014

ci-devant \seeduh-VAHN\ adjective 1. French. former: used especially in reference to a retired officeholder. Quotes This self-indulgent aristo, the ci-devant banker Amédé Vincent, who had expiated his villainies upon the guillotine, was known to have been successful in abstracting the bulk of his ill-gotten wealth and concealing it somewhere... -- Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, 1919 Origin Ci-devant comes from the French word of the same spelling which literally means "heretofore."

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