Also 6 calander, calendre, 8 calendar, 9 callender. [a. F. calandre:—med.L. calendra, celendra, L. cylindrus, a. Gr. κύλινδρος roller, cylinder. In sense 1 app. a corrupt form of calenderer, calendrer.]
† 1. One who calenders cloth; a calenderer. Obs.
1513. Act 5 Hen. VIII., iv. § 1. The said Strangers, called Dry Calanders … use the said dry calandring of Worsted.
1574. Life Abp. Canterb., B vij b, marg. note. A scourer or Calender off worsteddes of Norwich.
1705. Hearne, Collect., 6 Aug. (O.H.S.), I. 26. A fire hapen’d … in a Calender’s House.
1782. Cowper, Gilpin, 24. My good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.
2. A machine in which cloth, paper, etc., is pressed under rollers for the purpose of smoothing or glazing; also for watering or giving a wavy appearance, etc.
1688. Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., Calender, calendre.
1708. in Kersey.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Calender is also used for watering, or giving the waves to tabbies and mohairs. Ibid., Supp., s.v., At Paris they have an extraordinary machine of this kind, called the royal calender.
1791. Hamilton, Berthollet’s Dyeing, I. I. III. x. 295. The impressions of the calender, under which stuffs are passed to water them.
1802. Hull Advertiser, 25 Dec., 2/3. A valuable Callender, complete.
1875. Encycl. Brit., III. 818/1. When it is desired to finish cloth with a stiff or with a glazed finish … it is finished in the calender.
3. attrib. & Comb., as calender-house, -mill, -roll.
1727. Swift, Further Acc. E. Curll, Wks. 1755, III. I. 157. The calendar-mill-room at Exeter-change.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 576. The arrangements … are generally conducted at the calender houses where goods are finished.
1878. W. C. Smith, Hilda (1879), III. 125.
| ’Twas a school of the calender kind, | |
| Meant to put a fine gloss on the mind. |
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 25 Nov., 6/1. It [paper] is passed between *calender rolls of chilled steel, which, by tremendous pressure, give it an even and polished surface.
