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 (adj): pertaining to or occurring in the morning
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6 months ago rolig said:

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.

11 months ago quotato said: Where This Word Started, Probably Coined Early in the Morning

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.

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