- a variation of calends.
kalends
Britishplural noun
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But she knows no more of the mysteries of housekeeping than she does of the Latin kalends.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
In the arrangement subsequently arrived at under the name of the September Convention, the underlying intention was to adjourn Roma capitale to the Greek kalends.
From Cavour by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
The judgment or decree shall be given out and pronounced at the next Greek kalends, that is, never.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
And in the self-same year died Wulfric, Abbot of St. Augustine's, within the Easter week, on the fourteenth before the kalends of May.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
This year King Harold died at Oxford, on the sixteenth before the kalends of April, and he was buried at Westminster.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
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