in comb. or as prefix = immediately preceding the present, last, in YESTEREVE, etc., after YESTERDAY, YESTERNIGHT; e.g., yester-afternoon, -age, -noon, -week. See also YESTER-YEAR.

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1806.  Coleridge, Lett. to D. Stuart, 18 Aug. I … have found myself so unusually better ever since I leaped on land *yester-afternoon.

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1870.  Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 97. A poet of the first order … puts the life-blood of an equal interest into Hebrew forms or Greek, mediæval or modern, yesterday or *yesterage.

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1855.  Hyde Clarke, Dict., *Yesternoon.

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1872.  M. Collins, in Frances Collins, M. C., Lett., etc. (1877), I. 106. I saw some swallows yesternoon at the parsonage.

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1839.  Mrs. Browning, Rom. Page, xii. The lady Abbess dead before it, And the chanting nuns whom *yester-week Her voice did charge and bless.

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