Calender


a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
a machine for impregnating fabric with rubber, as in the manufacture of automobile tires.
to press in a calender.
qalandar.
(in Islamic countries) one of an order of mendicant dervishes founded in the 14th century.
Historical Examples

The Arabian Nights Entertainments Anonymous
The Actress in High Life Sue Petigru Bowen
The Book of Humorous Verse Various
The Building of a Book Various
Mr. Punch in the Highlands Various
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
The Arabian Nights Entertainments Anonymous
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
English Narrative Poems Various
Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama Walter W. Greg

noun
a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
verb
(transitive) to subject (material) to such a process
noun
a member of a mendicant order of dervishes in Turkey, Iran, and India
v.
n.

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