yestreen

American  

[ye-streen] / jɛˈstrin /

noun

1. yesterday evening; last evening.

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adverb

1. during yesterday evening.

yestreen British  

/ jɛˈstriːn /

adverb

1. yesterday evening

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Etymology

Origin of yestreen

1325–75; Middle English. See yester-, even ²

Example Sentences

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yestreen

Sae loud I hear ye lie; For Percy had not men yestreen, To dight my men and me.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

If you stood there, would you whisper “Love, I love you,” as before,— Death pervading Now, and shading Eyes you sang of, that yestreen, As the sweetest ever seen?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

"Late late yestreen I saw the new moone25 Wi' the auld moone in hir arme; And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will com to harme."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Can you sing, my sweet maiden, 'Now wat ye wha I met yestreen?'

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

This fatal urn encloses a dead majesty, but yestreen a reverenced deity, now a mere heap of earth.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Bourne, Edward Gaylord