[Coined by D. G. Rossetti to render F. antan (:— L. ante annum) in François Villon’s Grand Testament, Ball. 1.) Last year.
1870. Rossetti, Three Transl. fr. Villon, 1, ‘The Ballad of Dead Ladies.’ But where are the snows of yester-year?
1871. R. Buchanan, in St. Paul’s Mag., April, 88. No crime of yesterday or yesteryear.
1888. Mrs. H. Ward, Robt. Elsmere, xxxi. Where had the crude pretty child of yester-year departed to?
1893. Daily Chron., 13 Sept., 3/1. The vogue of ‘Ernest Maltravers’ has gone with the snows of yesteryear.
