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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Kalander, Callender, n. [F. calandre, e.m.E. calender (in this sense, 1688).] A calender, the machine for smoothing or glazing cloth. b. Kalander mylne, used as a designation of the cloth factory of St. Paul's Work. —1619 Edinb. B. Rec. VI. 199.
Togidder with ane callender for lustring of the saidis stuffesb. 1632 Ib. VII. 111.
Frome the eistmost gavill of the hous buildit with the kalander mylne to the west gavill of the said tua eistmost housses [in St. Paul's Work]
