Definition of "matutinal" [mat•u•ti•nal]

• Of, relating to, or occurring in the morning; early. (adjective)

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• "Let there be light, and there was a sort of matutinal, * glowing phenomenon that slowly transfused, etc."
• "These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding evening."
• "The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery."