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Colure n. (pl. colures) (Astron. & Geog.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90° from the former, and is called the solstitial colure. "Thrice the equinoctial line He circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each colure."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... spring the sun rises from a point on the horizon, where the four great circles, namely, the horizon, the zodiac, theequator, and the equinoctial colure, meet, and, cutting each other, form three crosses. The sun is in the sign of Aries, "a better star," because the influence of this constellation was supposed to be benignant, and under it the earth reclothes itself. It was the season assigned to the Creation, ...

— The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise [Paradiso] • Dante Alighieri