yestereve, adv. (n.) Chiefly poet.
(jɛstəˈriːv)
[f. yester- + eve n.1]
= yester-evening.
| 1603 B. Jonson Entertainm. at Althrope Wks. (1616) 873 In hope that you would come here Yester-eue the lady Summer, Shee inuited to a banquet. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, Who..jealous is of me, That yester-eve I lighted them, along the dewy green. a 1850 Rossetti Dante & Circle ii. (1874) 271, I marked thee here all yestereve Lurking about my home. 1850 Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xiv. (1883) 204 No longer ago than yester-eve. 1859 Tennyson Marr. Geraint 702 And yester-eve I would not tell you of it, But kept it for a sweet surprise at morn. 1864 W. C. Bryant Italy 39 Slaves but yester-eve were they—Freeman with the dawning day. |