yestereve

American  

[yes-ter-eev] / ˈjɛs tərˈiv /

noun

Archaic.

1. yesterevening.

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Etymology

Origin of yestereve

First recorded in 1595–1605; yester- + eve

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Example Sentences

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yestereve

When they had gone some distance, the good man asked his wife, 'What befell of our young woman, who came thither yestereve?

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

And yestereve was a woeful word spoken, and that by a man-child of ten winters.”

From The House of the Wolfings by William Morris

The wife, whose babe first smiled that day, The fair fond bride of yestereve, And aged sire and matron gray, Saw the loved warriors haste away, And deemed it sin to grieve.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard

Dear Lucinius, yestereve we linger'd Scrawling fancies, a hundred, in my tablets, Wits in combat; a treaty this between us.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis

Upon the disc of Love's bright planet fell A darkness yestereve, and from your lips I heard cold words; then came a swift eclipse Of joy at meeting on hope's it-is-well.

From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker

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