colure

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"Where the four circles, the horizon, the zodiac, the equator, and the equinoctial colure, join; the last threeintersecting each other so as to form three crosses, as may be seen in the armillary sphere." v.

From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Cary, Henry Francis

The equator, ecliptic, and equinoctial colure intersect each other at a point close to the star η.

From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler

Inside the latter is a meridian circle, at right angles to which is a graduated colure; then the equator, apparently a double ring, and the ecliptic; also two diametric bars.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry

And as the equinoctial colure passed through the middle of Aries, when that sphere was constructed, he infers, by calculations of their retrograde motion from their place then till the year A.D.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William

Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star. 

From Letters on England by Voltaire