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matinal

[′mat·ən·əl]
(meteorology)
The morning winds, that is, an east wind.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Is all this precious time to be lavished on the matutinal repair and beautifying of an elderly person, who never goes abroad--whom nobody ever visits!" (3:31).
And a Matutinal with the three days of Holy Week in the old style
Its abrupt onset got on peoples' nerves and, in consequence, everybody, from bell-hop to bull-head, from roustabout to ruler, got the war "on the brain." It became the common staple of conversation, displacing even the matutinal commonplaces about the weather.
Sr[i.bar]harsa imagines a connection between the inarticulate matutinal chatter of these birds and homophonous morphemes in a Papini an sutra and wonders rather factitiously--if perhaps the two birds might be having a spirited morning discourse about grammar.
Lately they'd been having problems anyway--Vlad kept moving the table toward the darker corner of the room, while she wanted it by the window, as it had always been, we used to be solar and matutinal people, have you forgotten that?
The Prime Minister's idea of a holiday is to read a parliamentary bluebook while he is shaving and sing the swan-song of Free Trade in his matutinal bath-tub.
Using the archaic diction of "lain" set against the Plath-like jagged rhyming speech of "I'm the type that's mostly hype," she hopes desperately she's not alone in being a shell of a person, "all pose." All this in an effort--as in Frost's "Come In," to "be let in," to be "heard," to be "called." A wreath of violets lain where my brain used to be, Matutinal, Frantic.
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