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
Madeleine was preparing for her matinal walk, when her cousin was announced.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
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 Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 by Henry James
Now, then, ladies, I intended to breakfast down at the restaurant; but the temptation to take my matinal meal in such fair company was not to be resisted.
From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming
I might add, however, for your further information, that I think I shall not go to Bund-i-Kir, which looks too peaceful to disturb at this matinal hour, but there—on the western shore of the Ab-i-Shuteit.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
