yesteryear — ONAD

yesteryear /ˈyestərˌyir, ˈjɛstərˌjɪr

▸ noun literary last year or the recent past, especially as nostalgically recalled:

return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.

– ORIGIN mid 19th century : from yester- + year. The word was popularized by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's translation of a line in a poem by the medieval French poet François Villon: ‘Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?’ (‘But where are the snows of yesteryear?’).