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How would you explain ‘ Saturday last’ in the context? Today the cave was gone. Saturday last, it was there. Searching the whole rock face below the cliff did not turn it up. Then the tide came higher and waves crashed too hard to keep looking. How could a tunnel open in the rock, then close again? The tide must have been much higher today, and put it too far below the surface to find. Leandro says the tides are complicated and the rocks on that side are dangerous, to stay over here in the shallow reef. He wasn’t pleased to hear about the cave. He already knew about it, it is called something already, la lacuna. So, not a true discovery. How would you explain ‘ Saturday last’ in the second sentence? Does it mean last Satruday? Thanks!

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Yes, it means 'Saturday last week" or much more commonly 'last Saturday.' It's an old fashioned British usage.
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Yes it does mean last Saturday. It common speech you would say last Saturday usually, but in books, poems, and old English they use Saturday last for effect.

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