yestereve

English

Etymology

From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- +‎ even (“evening”).

Noun

yestereve (plural yestereves)

  1. (archaic) Yesterday evening.
    • 1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
      Only yestereve, you wot, one of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms came limping to us with the news of the awful carnage the foul fiend had wrought on his master's household.

Synonyms

Adverb

yestereve (not comparable)

  1. (During) yesterday evening.

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