forenoon
Americannoun
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the period of daylight before noon.
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the latter part of the morning.
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of forenoon
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Now and then he quietly put his arm around the slender, highstrung girl of 24, who, on the bright Saturday forenoon, became Mrs. Francis Joseph Quillinan.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the forenoon of a blazing August day, a blond, husky young man strolled into a hardware store in Austin, Texas, and asked for several boxes of rifle ammunition.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are the roaring lions and the suns at forenoon .
From Time Magazine Archive
They were driven out twice more during the forenoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
They set out early in the forenoon, some on horseback, the rest in carriages; I witnessed both the departure and the return.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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