kalends
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
"But what is all this about Scartaris and the kalends of July—?"
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules
There, the seventh day before the kalends, in the middle hour of the night, you shall see a beacon-fire and near it my colors.
From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving
That was the thirteenth day before the kalends of April.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
At length, after forty-eight years were expired, that most noble and potent king of the Britons, Cadwalla, being grown infirm with age and sickness, departed this life upon the fifteenth before the kalends of December.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
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