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

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)

Although Admiral Bluewater devoted the minimum of time to sleep, he was not what the French term matinal.

From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore

It was blinding the sun with a matinal oblation of incense.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

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