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Calque   Listen
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Calk  v. t.  (Written also calque)  To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.



Calque  v. t.  See 2d Calk, v. t.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Calque" Quotes from Famous Books



... real cause," answered Warwick. "I know it; for the sons of the North are familiar to me, and their rising hath deeper meaning than ye deem. What! have they not decoyed to their head my kinsmen, the heirs of Latimer and Fitzhugh, and bold Coniers, whose steel calque should have circled a wiser brain? Have they not taken my name as their battle-cry? And do ye think this falsehood veils nothing but the simple truth of ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



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