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forenoon

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Forenoon (noun) means Another word for morning, the hours from sunrise up to midday.

noun

Another word for morning, the hours from sunrise up to midday.

"It was run in by Ranochan of Polmadie on the forenoon slow to Carlisle and the afternoon slow back to the North." — A. G. Dunbar, The (1959)

"This, too, was why no one, not even the twins, paid Papa O. any heed when the family returned from Mass one Sunday forenoon and he told them someone had been knocking while they were away." — Nelson Algren, How the Devil Came Down Division Street (1945)

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