yestereve
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + eve (“evening”).
Noun
[edit]yestereve (plural yestereves)
- (archaic) Yesterday evening.
- Synonyms: yestereven, yesterevening, yestreen, last night, yesternight, yesterday night
- 1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn[1], 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.
Adverb
[edit]yestereve (not comparable)
- (During) yesterday evening.
- Synonyms: yestereven, yesterevening, yestreen, last night, yesternight, yesterday night
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