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plural aftermaths
(obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season. quotations
They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.
1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe. examples