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yesteryear

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yesteryear /ˈjɛstəjɪə , ˈjɛstəjəː /
▸ noun literary last year or the recent past, especially as nostalgically recalled:
return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear
the rockers of yesteryear filled Memories Music Club.
– 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?’).
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