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   yesteryear

   /ˈjɛstəjɪə/

   noun

   • 1. last year or the recent past, especially as nostalgically recalled: literary "return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear"

   Word 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?’).

   Scrabble Points: 16

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