yestermorningadv.n.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. 2nd Eclogues sig. Hh7^v Leuca to me did yester-morning showe In perfect light..Her naked legge, more white then whitest snowe.

?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses iv. 64 For I did clearly see, But yester morning, God like Mentor here.

1654–5 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 26 300..Cavalieres tooke yestermorning..Judge Rolls out of his bed.

1764 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto v. 177 My Lady Matilda told me but yester-morning that her Highness Hippolita knows something.

1788 H. L. Piozzi Lett. to & from Johnson I. 247 So yestermorning a flag flying from some conspicuous steeple in Westminster gave notice of the approaching festival.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. xv. 305 Those expressions, which were yester-morning accounted but a light offence.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ix. 152 He dropped down dead in Oxford Road yester morning.

1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke vi. 47 There was the Squire o' Milton over here yester morning.

1962 A. Burkhard tr. F. Grillparzer King Ottocar 139 Ottocar When did she die? Elizabeth But yestermorning, Sire.

1989 Times 1 Dec. 16/7 Yestermorning, I strolled down to the present Cricklewood Station to test the wind.

a1750 A. Hill Insolvent (1758) iv. 59 Poor, poor Amelia!, what a fate is yours! How fall'n, from yester morning's awe-mix'd shine, Of white untainted beauty.

1790 J. Hurdis Adriano 37 With yester-morning's sun I left my home, and..Sought these high cliffs.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 652 The solemn attractions and peculiar interest of the subjects that occupied the first and larger half of our yester-morning's conversation.

1936 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 19 Dec. 3/7 Glory fades as flow'r o' grass, Joy as yestermorning's dew.

1982 C. N. Douglas Six of Swords xxvi. 181 Bland as yestermorning's mush.