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yesteryear

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yes⋅ter⋅year

  [yes-ter-yeer, -yeer]
Use yesteryear in a Sentence
–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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yes·ter·year   (yěs'tər-yîr')   
n.  

  1. The year before the present year.

  2. Time past; yore.

yes'ter·year' adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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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