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yester-year

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yes⋅ter⋅year

  [yes-ter-yeer, -yeer]
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–noun
1. last year.
2. the recent years; time not long past.
–adverb
3. during time not long past.
Origin:
yester- + year; appar. introduced by D.G. Rossetti (1870) to render MF antan (Villon)
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Word Origin & History

yesteryear 
coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from yester(day) + year to translate Fr. antan (from V.L. *anteannum "the year before") in a refrain by François Villon: Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? which Rossetti rendered "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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