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nudiustertian (nu-di-uhs-TUR-shuhn) adjective

   Of or relating to the day before yesterday.

[From Latin nudius tertius, literally, today is the third day.]

-Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org)

  "What dress the Queen is in this week: what the nudiustertian fashion of
   the court, I mean the very newest."
   Nathaniel Ward; Simple Cobler of Aggawam; 1647.

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