adv. and sb. arch. and dial. [f. YESTER- + MORNING sb.] = prec.
1654–5. Clarke Papers (Camden), III. 26. 300 … Cavalieres tooke yestermorning … Judge Rolls out of his bed.
1764. H. Walpole, Otranto, v. My Lady Matilda told me but yester-morning that her Highness Hippolita knows something.
1775. Mrs. Thrale, Lett. to Johnson, 24 June. So yestermorning, a flag flying from some conspicuous steeple in Westminster gave notice of the approaching festival.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., xl. Those expressions, which were yester-morning accounted but a light offence.
1848. Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, ix. He dropped down dead in Oxford Road yester morning.
1889. Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, vi. There was the Squire o’ Milton over here yester morning.
1893. Stevenson, Catriona, I. i. Even so late as yestermorning, I was like a beggarman by the wayside.
