postfame

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1. After having been famous (but now forgotten).

   There were worse things than postfame obscurity, of course.

   2004, Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood, page 181

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   He wrote that the "springtime" of his life had nurtured the experience that had become the fodder for his fiction; the "summer," the realization of actual composition; the "autumn," his postfame years and subsequent collapse depicted so candidly in Big Sur.

   2007, Paul Maher, Kerouac: The Definitive Biography, page 435

   It was a series of old news stories about a member of a D-list boy band who had found a postfame career running a medium-sized cult.

   2020, Daisy Bateman, Murder Goes to Market

2. After having become famous (and now famous).

   At this point, therefore, any reference to breakdancing has to distinguish between prefame and postfame versions of the dance.

   2011, Sally Banes, Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism, page 138

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   In the opening, postfame scene that frames the film, she is hyperfeminized to accentuate her body as wealthy and nonlaboring (in a job that would require shorter nails, that is.)

   2003, Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini, Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, page 263

   Thomas Moore explained in the 1820 preface to Lalla Rookh that, following the tremendous success of his early Irish Melodies, he was in a sort of postfame hangover and had difficulty beginning Lalla Rookh.

   2008, Joseph Lennon, Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History, page 157