yestreen

[ ye-streen ]

noun

yesterday evening; last evening.

adverb

during yesterday evening.

Origin of yestreen

1325–75; Middle English. See yester-, even²

Words Nearby yestreen

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How to use yestreen in a sentence

This fatal urn encloses a dead majesty, but yestreen a reverenced deity, now a mere heap of earth.
The Philippine Islands, 14931898, Volume XXXVI, 16491666 | Various
Jenny: Hoot, ay, sir; didna ye see a farm as ye came up yestreen, just three parks aff?
Scotch Wit and Humor | W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe
That was how things stood a couple of weeks syne, but yestreen I heard what may make the change wanted.
An Orkney Maid | Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
He got a lassie frae Auchenlochan to cook, but she and her box gaed off in the post-cairt yestreen.
Huntingtower | John Buchan
The dominie was aboard the Falcon just before the Clasper came in yestreen, and I saw him again after ye were brought here.
The Pilots of Pomona | Robert Leighton

British Dictionary definitions for yestreen

yestreen

/ (jɛˈstriːn) /

adverb

Scot yesterday evening

Origin of yestreen

C14: from yest (e) r- + e (v) en ²

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