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Definition of Calqued
1. calque [v] - See also: calque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calqued
Literary usage of Calqued
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Occitan Translations of John XII and Xiii-XVII from a Fourteenth-Century by Marvyn Roy Harris (1985)
"In our texts, it frequently appears calqued on Lat. et in an adverbial function
meaning 'then' (eg XIII:32 in Si Dieus ... £ Dieus . ..."
2. The American Drawing Book: A Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for by John Gadsby Chapman (1858)
"... may be at the same time repeated, or calqued, in its proper place, by means
of a sheet or piece of tissue-paper placed between the tracing-paper and ..."
3. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"... a design drawn on strong paper, sometimes afterwards calqued through, and
transferred on the fresh plaster of a wall, to be painted in fresco Cartouch, ..."
4. The Literary Panorama and National Registerby Charles Taylor by Charles Taylor (1816)
"remarks of the writer are intelligent, and instructive, Many of them are calqued
on the criticisms of Dr. Bur- ney on the Commemoration of Handel ..."
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