Bygone \By"gone`\, n. Something gone by or past; a past event. ``Let old bygones be'' --Tennyson.
{Let bygones be bygones}, let the past be forgotten.
Better athlete conditioning and equipment have helped rewrite the records in just about every other sport, but golf's scores haven't changed much from bygone eras.
Indeed, says Stepping Out, certain "relics of a bygone America are de rigeur on the backs of savvy British protestors."
Sitting on the sidelines and "voting with our feet" are relics of a bygone era.
The technology and working practices of some firms continues to reflect a bygone era.
Meanwhile, ABC executives appear to have learned to live without limousines and other bygone ABC perquisites.
The move angers many customers, who lament bygone days when resident bank managers would open the bank and approve loans after hours, attend neighborhood potlucks and host an annual holiday buffet in this Sierra Nevada community.
Dissatisfied voters can only wait until the next election, and by then, the issues may have changed and bygone promises may be forgotten.
Of course, many money managers of the investment institutions that dominate the modern markets dismiss indicators like the GM bellwether as quaint artifacts of a bygone time, like engraved stock certificates or mechanical ticker-tape machines.
In bygone days, chaos ruled when OPEC gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel here.
Now the Soviet soldiers stationed in what was East Germany find themselves a relic of a bygone era.
In bygone days they'd have called Muhammad a truant officer.
Newspapers in Panama, meanwhile, said Mexico's "party dictatorship" had been a model for Panama's bygone military regimes.
One such bygone ritual, in evidence this week, comes under the general heading of the worship of strange gods; in this case, the Dow-Jones Industrial Average.
I wanted the easy, breezy California of a bygone era.
"Very few people have the staff to give a party at home anymore," he said, waxing sentimental about a bygone era of maids in starch-white aprons, cucumber sandwiches and silver tea trays.