yestreen

[ ye-streen ]

noun

1. yesterday evening; last evening.

adverb

1. during yesterday evening.

yestreen

/ jɛˈstriːn /

adverb

1. yesterday evening

Word History and Origins

Origin of yestreen¹

1325–75; Middle English. See yester-, even ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of yestreen¹

C14: from yest ( e ) r- + e ( v ) en ²

Example Sentences

This fatal urn encloses a dead majesty, but yestreen a reverenced deity, now a mere heap of earth.

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Jenny: Hoot, ay, sir; didna ye see a farm as ye came up yestreen, just three parks aff?

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That was how things stood a couple of weeks syne, but yestreen I heard what may make the change wanted.

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He got a lassie frae Auchenlochan to cook, but she and her box gaed off in the post-cairt yestreen.

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The dominie was aboard the Falcon just before the Clasper came in yestreen, and I saw him again after ye were brought here.

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