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

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colure (plural colures)

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

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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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  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 116