matinal
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"The sidewalks are swept, there is no refuse piled up, and a matinal sprinkler truck comes through, washing down the streets."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was blinding the sun with a matinal oblation of incense.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
Even Albert Penny, rubbing the grit out of his eyes, had marveled at the matinal bloom of her.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
The light wagons were made to hold two each, instead of one, and the matinal snipe escaped death, and was happy over his early worm.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
W. is not at all "matinal" and hates doing any kind of business early—must always have his ride first.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
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