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

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

Señor alcalde,” said the clerk, after having exchanged with his superior a profusion of matinal salutations, “what a splendid pair of pantaloons you have on!”

From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

Presently, glancing from his south window, he observed several matinal smokes rising from the chimneys of a country-house a mile away, on a slope fronting the river.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various