yester-evening, adv. and n. arch.
(jɛstəˈriːvnɪŋ)
[f. yester- + evening n.1]
A. adv. Yesterday evening.
| 1715 Rowe Lady Jane Gray iii. i, This Morn a trusty Spy, Has brought me Word that yester Evening late,..Your Friends were marry'd. a 1774 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1777) III. iv. xxvi. 46 If he be asked why he..played at cards yester-evening, to answer, For the glory of God would be untrue, or if true would be a profanation of his name. 1826 Scott Woodst. xvii, I had taken my post yester evening in the half-furnished apartment. 1889 Conan Doyle Micah Clarke vii, Yester-evening I left Monmouth's camp. |
B. n. The evening of yesterday.
| 1796 Coleridge Dest. Nations 235 Late on the yester-evening. 1808 ― Let. to F. Jeffrey 20 July, The Review was sent, addressed to you, by the post of yester-evening. 1822 Byron Werner ii. ii, Me! whom he ne'er saw Till yester' evening. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 209 Yester-evening's sunset. |