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

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 Fleming, May Agnes

The matinal hour devoted to this refreshing walk was to both maidens the calmest and happiest of the twenty-four.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

Then Poppy, her exercises done, majestically trod the coverlet to salute her mistress with the accustomed matinal salutation which Missy called a kiss.

From Missy by Gatlin, Dana

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 O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)