yestern

American

[yes-tern] / ˈjɛs tərn /

adjective

Archaic.

yester.

Etymology

Origin of yestern

1855–60; alteration of yester, perhaps with -ern

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Over the next half-decade or so, the autobiography's "fadograph of a yestern scene" loses its glow of childhood happiness.

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