calami

• plural of calamus.

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calami

We omit translation of the words ”los seis,” “the six,” as being apparently a lapsus calami.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

It can, therefore, have been a mere lapsus calami on her part, as this eminently sensible woman was incapable of the silly weakness of concealing her age.

From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen

In providing copy for a work of six volumes, each of about 1000 pages, it was but natural that lapsus calami should occur from time to time.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

He could hardly have known of the two G's, from the sound; but the omission of the cross-bar from the one that was de rigueur was certainly a lapsus calami, and a serious one.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

I think this must have been a lapsus calami on Voltaire's part, because it is unlikely that he would have invented such a story.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by Sale, George

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