yestereve

[ yes-ter-eev ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. yesterevening.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yestereve¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; yester- + eve

Example Sentences

Stranger, are you going to tell me about yoursel, as I asked you yestereve?

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This, indeed, amazed me not a little, inasmuch as I weened not that she knew of all the grief I had suffered yestereve.

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Not long after dinner Akusch came to me with the tidings that Herdegen had ridden into Nuremberg yestereve.

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

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And as for that letter; a Lenten jest I called it yestereve; and so it is verily!

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