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yestereve

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from ġiestranǣfen — “yesterday evening”
  2. inherited from yester even

Definitions

  1. Yesterday evening.

    • 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.

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