Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.
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- noun archaic
Yesterday atnoon .
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Examples
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"What evil thing hath befallen thy brother since yesternoon?" he asked, going to the couch.
The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock
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I almost feared thou hadst met with some mischance on thy way hither, and that I should have had to sally forth and rescue thee again even as I did yesternoon!
Ardath Marie Corelli 1889
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-- I've got your name now, 'said Guy, as they were ferrying across,' you're stiff certain they left Cologne with the maiden yesternoon, now? '
Farina George Meredith 1868
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-- I've got your name now, 'said Guy, as they were ferrying across,' you're stiff certain they left Cologne with the maiden yesternoon, now? '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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-- I've got your name now, 'said Guy, as they were ferrying across,' you're stiff certain they left Cologne with the maiden yesternoon, now? '
Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The army moved away yesternoon, and is now some twenty-five miles distant.
The Boy Knight 1867
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436 Cried he, “By Allah, my good people, one and all, I lie not to you: indeed I lay yesternight in the land of Egypt and yesternoon I was at Bassorah.”
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“Oh, madam! what, you have not heard then that these two dear babies have lost both father and mother since yesternoon; poor babies, worse luck for ‘em!”
Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton Anonymous 1812
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