calender
Americannoun
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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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From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023
In The Shepheardes Calender, Spenser's June is a tale of love lost to a rival swain.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2012
Tamara Drewe should appeal to older Middle England audiences that embraced British comedies such as Calender Girls and make some inroads into 15-24 and 25-34 categories, where it will compete with those other titles.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2010
As the Calender in poetry generally, so even more decidedly in their own department, do these songs mark a distinct advance in formal evolution.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
It is a love lament, and the insertion of a song in a complicated lyrical measure in a plain stanzaic setting is evidently copied from the Calender.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
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