yestereve

[ yes-ter-eev ]

/ ˈyɛs tərˈiv /

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noun, adverb Archaic.

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Origin of yestereve

First recorded in 1595–1605; yester- + eve

Stranger, are you going to tell me about yoursel, as I asked you yestereve?
The Snow-Burner|Henry Oyen
This, indeed, amazed me not a little, inasmuch as I weened not that she knew of all the grief I had suffered yestereve.
Margery [Gred], Complete|Georg Ebers
Not long after dinner Akusch came to me with the tidings that Herdegen had ridden into Nuremberg yestereve.
Margery [Gred], Complete|Georg Ebers
When they had gone some distance, the good man asked his wife, 'What befell of our young woman, who came thither yestereve?
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio|Giovanni Boccaccio

And as for that letter; a Lenten jest I called it yestereve; and so it is verily!
Margery [Gred], Complete|Georg Ebers