yestreen

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic, poetic)The night before; last night.

   “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”