calendry

calendry

English

Etymology 1

calendar +‎ -y

Noun

calendry (usually uncountable, plural calendries)

1. The calculation and development of calendars, especially the determination of the timing of astronomical movements.
   • 1948, Alfred Kroeber, Anthropology, page 423:

     It attained to cities, kingdoms, most metallurgical arts, some astronomy and calendry, and extraordinarily complex rituals.

   • 2011, Chen Kaiguo, ‎Zheng Shunchao, Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard, →ISBN:

     Li Chunfeng mastered all sorts of subjects in youth and was an expert at calendry.

2. A specialized calendar or set of calendars.
   • 1947, The Peabody Reflector - Volume 20, Issue 3, page 92:

     He will not again decorate his room with cheap prints and art calendry.

   • 1977, Minnesota State Register - Volume 2, page 1808:

     “Peak day” means that day during a calendry when demand is the greatest;

Etymology 2

calender +‎ -y

Noun

calendry (plural calendries)

1. A place set aside for calendering.
   • 1783, Abû al-Faḍl b. Mubârak ʻAllâmî, Ayeen Akbery: or, The institutes of the emperor Akber:

     And over these is spread a calendry, resembling a tent, made of wax-cloth, or oil-cloth, to defend them from rain the the heat of the sun.

   • 1897, John Morley, Diderot and the Encyclopedists, page 194:

     The bustle, the dexterity, the alert force of the iron foundry, the glass furnace, the gunpowder mill, the silk calendry are as skilfully reproduced as the more tranquil toil of the dairywoman, the embroiderer, the confectioner, the setter of types, the compounder of drugs, the chaser of metals.

   • 1928, The Journal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology:

     Improvements have been effected here in the methods of work and in the arrangement of the sorting room, wash house, calendry, and drying, packing and despatch rooms.

Anagrams

• dancerly, dry clean, dry-clean, dryclean