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From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”).

colure (plural colures)

  1. (astronomy) Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.

From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”). Compare English colure.

colure m (plural colures)

  1. (astronomy, geography) colure

colure

  1. alternative form of cooloor
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:
      wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.
      we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.

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