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 excessively shy and unseasonable habits of the matinal worm never appealed favorably to me, but we have to have him once in a while, so here I am.

From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)

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

Perched on the steps of the church stood the stooped sable figure of the king, just coming from his matinal devotions.

From If I Were King by McCarthy, Justin

Madeleine was preparing for her matinal walk, when her cousin was announced.

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