Forms: 6 calandre, calendre, calander, callendre, 7– calender. [a. F. calandre-r, f. calandre; see CALENDER sb.1]
trans. To pass through a calender; to press (cloth, paper, etc.) between rollers, for the purpose of smoothing, glazing, etc.
1513. Act 5 Hen. VIII., iv. Worsteds which been … shorn, dyed, and calandred.
1523. Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII., iii. § 10. The sayd craftes men … shall not … calendre any worstedes.
1696. J. F., Merchant’s Wareho., 17. Frize … is not Callendred, or thickned as other Cloths.
1880. Print. Times, 15 Feb., 31/2. The paper … must be heavily calendered before being used.
Hence Calendered ppl. a., Calendering vbl. sb. (also attrib.).
1513. Act 5 Hen. VIII., iv. § 1. The said dry Calandring is scorned and abhorred.
1832. Babbage, Econ. Manuf., viii. (ed. 3), 54. Establishments for calendering and embossing.
1850. Smiles, Self-Help, ii. 35. A woman who kept a calendering machine.
1878. Cornell Rev., Feb., 188. Beautifully printed on fine calendered paper.
