Obs. exc. poet. [f. EVE sb.1 + STAR.] Evening star.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boethius, I. v. 22. Þe euesterre esperus … is pale by þe morwe at þe rysynge of þe sonne.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 301. This Spayne … heet somtyme of Hespera, the eue sterre.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 144. Evesterre, esperus, vesper.

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1691.  E. Taylor, Behmen’s Theos. Philos., xv. 21. Man’s Astral Spirit, called his Prophetick Evester.

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1878.  Browning, Poets Croisic, xii. There peered May’s earliest eve-star.

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