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Definition of Last quarter
1. Noun. The last fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth.
Definition of Last quarter
1. Noun. the waning lunar phase half way between full moon and new moon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Last Quarter
Literary usage of Last quarter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1921)
"Press Cupboard, last quarter seventeenth century. Figure 168 shows a press
cupboard, the property of Mr. Maxwell C. Greene, of Providence, which, ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"THE MONTHLY DEFICIENCY These losses amounted for the last quarter of ... We lost
on the average 260000 tons per month during the last quarter of 1917, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"During the last quarter of the eighteenth century the few Catholic settlers at
Aquia Creek, near the Potomac, were attended by Father John Carroll and other ..."
4. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"Typhus in Liverpool, Newcastle and Chester in the last quarter of the i8th century.
Liverpool, in the last quarter of the i8th century, came next in size to ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... he reviews the last quarter of a century, and carefully notes the steps of
change and the stage of progress which has been reached. ..."
6. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1863)
"The Return* of the Commissioners for last quarter shows that emigration had
attained a magnitude that can hardly fail to surprise when the circumstances of ..."
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