eveninger
n.— «That was the day when the managing director of Coltex India, a subsidiary of the New York-based Coltex Inc., had picked up the copy of Mumbai’s leading eveninger kept in his car to read on his way home from work—as had been his practice for years—with the screaming headline: bis Ordered To Probe Ingredients Used By Cleentooth.» —“Credibility Crisis” Business Today (India) July 22, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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