yestreen
Americannoun
adverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of yestreen
Example Sentences
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Would I might dream it over, the dream I dreamed yestreen, That I was King in Kerry, and you were Galway’s Queen!
From Sprays of Shamrock by Clinton Scollard
“Tammas took the keys o’ the kirk fram me yestreen, and winna gie them up.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
For late yestreen I saw the old moon in the sky, and she was nursing the new moon in her arms.
From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Allan Stewart
Late yestreen she sat doon here to wash them, and I sat, too, and after that she cuddled me in her airms.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The fact is, everybody about the house kens o' the muirburn that the mistress rais'd on you yestreen, for takin' up wi' Miss Migummery.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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