yestern

[ yes-tern ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. yester.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yestern¹

1855–60; alteration of yester, perhaps with -ern

Example Sentences

If I go out in the wood on the mountain When the tops shine in the earliest sunlight, Ah! there still lingers the dry heat of yestern On the singed mosses and withering shrubs, And all around me come m/idges by thousands, Stinging and bold, As if the hot sun were sprinkling in sparkles.

From Project Gutenberg

Over the next half-decade or so, the autobiography's "fadograph of a yestern scene" loses its glow of childhood happiness.

From Time Magazine Archive