adv. and sb. arch. [f. YESTER- + EVENING sb.1]
A. adv. Yesterday evening.
1715. Rowe, Lady Jane Gray, III. i. This Morn a trusty Spy, Has brought me Word that yester Evening late,… Your Friends were marry’d.
a. 1774. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1777), III. IV. xxvi. 46. If he be asked why he … played at cards yester-evening, to answer, For the glory of God would be untrue, or if true would be a profanation of his name.
1826. Scott, Woodst., xvii. I had taken my post yester evening in the half-furnished apartment.
1889. Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, vii. Yester-evening I left Monmouth’s camp.
B. sb. The evening of yesterday.
1796. Coleridge, Dest. Nations, 235. Late on the yester-evening. Ibid. (1808), Let. to F. Jeffrey, 20 July. The Review was sent, addressed to you, by the post of yester-evening.
1822. Byron, Werner, II. ii. Me! whom he ne’er saw Till yester’ evening.
1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, II. 209. Yester-evening’s sunset.
