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calcar

1

[ kal-kahr ]

noun

Biology.
plural calcaria
  1. a spur or spurlike process.


calcar

2

[ kal-kahr ]

noun

Glassmaking.
plural calcaria
  1. a reverberatory furnace for preparing frit.

calcar

/ ˈ°ìæ±ôËŒ°ìÉ‘Ë /

noun

  1. a spur or spurlike process, as on the leg of a bird or the corolla of a flower
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

calcar

/ °ìă±ô′°ìä°ù′ /

  1. A spur or spurlike projection, such as one found on the base of a petal or on the wing or leg of a bird.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of calcar1

< Latin: spur, equivalent to calc-, stem of calx heel, calx + -ar, shortening of -Äå°ù±ð, neuter of -Äå°ù¾±²õ -ar 1

Origin of calcar2

1655–65; < Italian calcara < Late Latin ³¦²¹±ô³¦Äå°ù¾±²¹ lime-kiln, equivalent to Latin calc- lime ( chalk ) + -Äå°ù¾±²¹ -ary
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of calcar1

C19: from Latin, from calx heel
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Vesalius and van Calcar faced challenges of their own.

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She stole Celia’s leather pumps when her feet got too swollen to wear them and tore the backs open with her calcar- ated heels.

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For the same reason I have always felt a great desire to receive praise and applause from polite society: 'Excitat auditor stadium, laudataque virtus Crescit, et immensum gloria calcar habet.

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This conversion, which took place In 1374, appears to have been due partly to the effects of a dangerous illness and partly to the influence of Henry de Calcar, the learned and pious prior of the Carthusian monastery at Munnikhuizen near Arnhem, who had remonstrated with him on the vanity of his life.

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Calcar, kal′kar, n. an oven or furnace for calcining the materials of frit before melting—also Fritting-furnace: an arch or oven for annealing.

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