kalends
Britishplural noun
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"But what is all this about Scartaris and the kalends of July—?"
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules
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 Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
That was the thirteenth day before the kalends of April.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
Of these, one, on the new land laws proposed, was spoken in the Senate on the kalends of January.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
Bingham also cites Augustine as saying that it was the current tradition that Christ was born on the eighth of the kalends of January, that is, on the 25th of December.
From Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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