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yesterdawn

noun

Etymology

From yester- + dawn.

  1. inherited from dawnen
  2. prefixed as yesterdawn — “yester + dawn”

Definitions

  1. The dawn of yesterday.

    • They come to me from the years agone, Like echoes from far away :Like sunbeams that faded at yesterdawn, Like the glory of yesterday.
    • Who split the kola of words In the silence of yesterdawns?
    • We've fasted when no fasting was prescribed, having been on our way since yesterdawn."

  2. At dawn on yesterday.

    • But, now I know you love the lass, I'll say I saw her yesterdawn as blooming as her name.
    • But yesterdawn the old joy came back to me.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA