Wordie: Matutinal: Comments

Comment by leafar, 6 months ago

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:04:20 +0000

p.45 de Fixer des vertiges. Les photographies de Willy Ronis

Comment by rolig, 8 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:00:32 +0000

About someone impeccably clean-shaven: "He spoke, as to cheek and chin, of the joy of the matutinal steel." - Alan Hollinghurst, in The Line of Beauty, riffing on Henry James.

Where This Word Started, Probably Coined Early in the Morning

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:06:40 +0000

MATUTINAL, pertaining to the morning, early. (L.) Matutinal
is in Blount's Gloss., ed. 1674 ; mainline in Kersey, ed. 1715.—
Lat. matutinalis, belonging to the morning ; formed with suffix -alis
from matiitin-us, belonging to the morning ; see further under
Matins.