forenoon

noun

Etymology: From Middle English forenone, equivalent to fore- + noon.

1. Synonym of morning: the part of the day between sunrise and noon.

   “You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.”

   “Later in the forenoon the gale increased more and more; the seas set in, and the waves grew bigger and bigger[.]”