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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1599
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Matutine, -yne, a. [Late ME. (c 1445, Lydgate), L. mātūtīnus.] Of the morning, matutinal. —(1) c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 4.
Wp sprang the goldyn candill matutyne 15.. Clariodus ii. 1396.
The lustie candill matutine 15.. Ib. iv. 542.
Scho schynit as dois the fairest star matutyne c1552 Lynd. Mon. 147.
Phebus … With his imbroudit mantyll matutyne(2) 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 38/7.
The messengeiris of the rede aurora, quhilkis … had persit the crepusculyne lyne matutine of the … orizone
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