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mat·tins

 (măt′nz)
n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Chiefly British
Variant of matins.
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mattins

(ˈmætɪnz)
n
(Ecclesiastical Terms) a variant spelling of matins
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Choral Mattins (according to the Book of Common Prayer) will be sung in Church at 9:30 am.
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Elizabeth was accompanied by members of her family, including grandsons Prince William and Prince Harry, and William's wife Catherine, at the Easter Mattins service in St George's Chapel.
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William and Kate walked together with other members of the royal family to the Mattins at St George's Chapel yesterday morning.
And his mind played for a while with the fancy of the drug, thinking that the thin sound of mattins was the slow breathing of the drugged body where it lay stretched on its back" (9).
The Queen was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh and granddaughter Princess Eugenie as she arrived for the Mattins service at St George's Chapel.
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She surely intends to go to Mattins, but not then to stay on.