calender
Americannoun
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calenders
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a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
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a machine for impregnating fabric with rubber, as in the manufacture of automobile tires.
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Etymology
Origin of calender
1505–15; < Middle French calandre, by vowel assimilation < *colandre < Vulgar Latin *colendra, for Latin cylindrus cylinder; compare Middle English calendrer (< Anglo-French ) as name of occupation
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Separately, Mr. Angelle held private meetings with representatives from the same companies, according to a copy of his calender, obtained through a public records request.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2018
But a recent decision by the Executive Committee has two events now also coming off the calender.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2017
Dwight Howard continued to be the best center in the NBA, but the man carried bad vibes with him all through the calender year, from the east coast to the west.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2012
The biker calender above the desk still reads February 2006.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2012
With the exception of Jones Bradley, there was not one among them who had not been guilty of almost every crime to be found on the calender of human depravity.
From Fire Cloud The Mysterious Cave. A Story of Indians and Pirates. by Samuel H. Fletcher
He kept going back to his precious ledgers of innocence, the calenders.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2018
School districts across the state are racing to adopt their 2017-2018 calenders and are scrambling to see whether they will have to reduce spring breaks to adhere to the mandate.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2016
The caliph, who heard this, came up to him and the other calenders, and asked them what might be the meaning of all this?
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
One of them answered, No, madam, no otherwise than as we are all calenders; that is to say, as we observe the same rules.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
He diverted himself with the multitude of calenders, santons, and dervises, who had travelled from the heart of India, and halted on their way with the emir.—W.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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