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prettygoodwordcalender (KAL-uhn-der) - n., a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders. v., to press in such a machine.
Not to be confused with the calendar that keep track of dates, which was originally spelled the same but differentiated in the 17th century to avoid confusion. Borrowed around 1513 from Middle French calandre, of uncertain origin but speculated to be from conjectural Vulgar Latin form *colendra, from Latin cylindrus, cylinder, from Greek kylindros. Because, well, rollers are cylinders.
---L.
Not to be confused with the calendar that keep track of dates, which was originally spelled the same but differentiated in the 17th century to avoid confusion. Borrowed around 1513 from Middle French calandre, of uncertain origin but speculated to be from conjectural Vulgar Latin form *colendra, from Latin cylindrus, cylinder, from Greek kylindros. Because, well, rollers are cylinders.
---L.
