单词 | yestermorn |
释义 | yestermornadv.n. Chiefly poetic. Now archaic and rare. A. adv. On or during the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning. Cf. earlier yestermorning adv. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > yesterday > [adverb] > yesterday morning yestermorninga1586 last morninga1616 yestermorn1702 1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane ii. i. 16 From yester Morn till Even. 1739 T. White & J. James Hemerologium i. sig. B4 That glorious Mansion we left yester-Morn. 1764 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto iii. 70 But yester-morn, whose house was so great, so flourishing as Manfred's? 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 5 The fading flowers, That yester-morn bloom'd waving in the breeze. 1842 R. H. Barham Black Mousquetaire in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 9 The form whose stalwart pride But yester morn was by his side. 1895 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 828/1 The lover wrote yestermorn, making light of the story. 1917 W. de la Mare Sunken Garden 11 The Kingfisher But yestermorn conjured me here Out of his green and gold. 1990 A. Coren in Times 28 Dec. 10/1 Boxing Noon, and Hampstead Heath resembles nothing so much as the gale-scattered covers of all those comic annuals ripped yestermorn from their urgent stockings. B. n. The morning of yesterday. Cf. earlier yestermorning n.Now chiefly in historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > yesterday > [noun] > yesterday morning yestermorninga1750 yestermorn1764 1764 W. Falconer Shipwreck (new ed.) iii. 119 Ah! how unlike what yester-morn enjoy'd! a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. i. 13 Each lady dated her intelligence [of the accident] from the same hour of yester morn . View more context for this quotation 1846 Ld. Tennyson Golden Year in Poems (ed. 4) II. 89 But if you care indeed to listen, hear These measured words, my work of yestermorn. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 84 To the tune of yestermorn I set the truth. 1939 Kingston (Jamaica) Gleaner 14 Aug. They danced untiringly to the strains of Doc Bramwell and his orchestra, far into the wee hours of yestermorn. 2010 L. Curtis Higgs Grace in thine Eyes (new ed.) lxiii. 317 You'll be wanting this, I imagine. Courtesy of yestermorn's mail coach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.n.1702 |
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