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Meaning of yestreen | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The night before; last night.

Scotland, archaic, poetic

Examples

“It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […].”
“"Well, it's a funny thing, but I can't get rid of the impression that at some point in my researches into the night life of London yestreen I fell upon some person to whom I had never been introduced and committed mayhem upon his person."”
“You have not forgotten our telephone conversation of yestreen, Jeeves?”
“Late yestreen I saw the new moon, the old moon in her arms”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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