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.
1806. Coleridge, Lett. to D. Stuart, 18 Aug. I have found myself so unusually better ever since I leaped on land *yester-afternoon.
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.
1855. Hyde Clarke, Dict., *Yesternoon.
1872. M. Collins, in Frances Collins, M. C., Lett., etc. (1877), I. 106. I saw some swallows yesternoon at the parsonage.
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.