oh, heaviest, maddest lumber of all!—the dread of what will my neighbour think, with luxuries that only cloy, with pleasures that bore, with empty show that, like the criminal’s iron crown of yore, makes to bleed and swoon the aching head that wears it!
days of yore
A time in the past or of a bygone era, especially one remembered nostalgically. Can be used ironically to mock such sentiment.
In days of yore, people had to rely on their own hands for the food on their table, not the massively processed food we get from the supermarket nowadays.
Many people long for a time gone past when societal roles were clearly defined. They fail to remember, though, that in such days of yore, horrible inequality was rife.
See also: days, of, yore
of yore
old-fashioned Of the ancient past; of long ago.
In times of yore, before telephones and the Internet, we relied on our family and neighbors for nearly every aspect of our lives.
See also: of, yore
