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by⋅gone

[bahy-gawn, -gon]
–adjective
1. past; gone by; earlier; former: The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.
–noun
2. Usually, bygones. that which is past: Let's not talk of bygones.
3. let bygones be bygones, to decide to forget past disagreements; become reconciled: Let's let bygones be bygones and be friends again.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME (north) by-gane; see gone, by 1
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