LekhoriLekhoriThe part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
Theſe men ſerue God in the forenoone, and the diuell in the after noone;
The later part of anything, often with implications of decline.
Buck.[…]Theſe both put by a poore petitioner A care-crazd mother of a many children, A beauty-waining and diſtreſſed widow, Euen in the afternoone of her beſt daies Made priſe and purchaſe of his luſtfull eye, Seduc t the pitch and height of al his thoughts, To baſe declenſion and loathd bigamie, By her in his vnlawfull bed he got.
A party or social event held in the afternoon.
In the afternoon.
I stayd at home till noone, and recᵈ of Crowders for 3 loods of shilling 2l. 8s.; and afternoone I went with my wife to Wakefeild, where by yᵉ way I spent at Toppitt 8d., and wee lay at Jackson’s all night.
Ellipsis of good afternoon.
From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.
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