- a variation of calends.
kalends
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
This year was King Edward slain at even-tide, at Corfe-gate, on the fifteenth before the kalends of April, and then was he buried at Wareham, without any kind of kingly honours.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
The archbishop Theodore came thus vnto his church of Canturburie in the second yeare after his consecration, about the second kalends of June, being sundaie.
From Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) The Fift Booke of the Historie of England. by Raphael Holinshed
Then he tells his friend very abruptly that his father died that year on the eighth day before the kalends of December—on the 24th of November.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
That was the thirteenth day before the kalends of April.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
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