matineux
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French
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[edit]matineux (feminine matineuse, masculine plural matineux, feminine plural matineuses)
- That is habitually an early riser; early-rising
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter I:
- [I]l était de complexion robuste, maigre de corps, sec de visage, fort matineux et grand ami de la chasse.
- [H]e was of a robust complexion, thin in the body, lean in the face, very early-rising and a friend of hunting.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “matineux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.