Fairy tale's starting word (4)

I believe the answer is:

once

(Other definitions for once that I've seen before include "On one occasion" , "At some former time" , "Some time back" , "... upon a time for the storyteller" , "At a previous time" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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