after-hourn.adj.

1726 Weekly Jrnl. 20 Aug. What Prince would think it consistent either with his Safety or his Honour, to interpose in any After-hour of Calamity and Distress.

1779 E. Clark Misc. Poems 210 These to thee an after hour shall yield.

1851 J. Dennistoun Mem. Dukes of Urbino III. li. 298 The remembrance of them cheered many an after hour of despondency.

1885 J. B. Gough Platform Echoes xxiii. 294 The marriage relation touches with beauty or blight, with fragrance or ill savour, every after-hour of life and of influence.

1910 N.Y. Observer 31 Mar. 404/1 One hour a day would enable a man to master a language. One hour a day, and that an after hour, would make an ignorant man a well-informed man in ten years.

1945 B. M. Hunter Manchu Empress vi. 71 The idea, ludicrous in the extreme, was to give Tzu Hsi cause for merriment in many an after hour.

1990 W. Jancik Billboard Bk. One-hit Wonders 148/2 Andrea and Lois spent many an afterhour rehearsing and tightening up their tunes.

1848 H. Curling Shakspere III. xvii. 219 Such pursuit formed a sort of afterhour recreation with him.

1884 Rep. Comm. Excise of Country Spirit Bengal 1883–4 II. 232 Occasionally..reports of after-hour sales in outstills and in imported liquor shops are received.

1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 5 Apr. p. iv/4 These after-hour labours, done in a man's own time.

1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential iii. xxvi. 306 Many of the more flagrant after-hour spots were shut down. Table gambling was virtually eliminated.

1992 S. Birdsell Chrome Suite ii. xvi. 321 She was leaving Toots, a booze can on Selkirk Avenue, where she had taken the current talent for after-hour drinks.