adv. [f. LATE a.1 + WHILE sb., with and without genitival s.] Of late, recently.

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1839.  Bailey, Festus, xix. (1848), 227. Hast met that anger late-while?

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1887.  S. Cheshire Gloss., Late-wheiles, of late … ‘I hanna seyn nowt on her late-wheiles.’

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