Month added to a calendar in leap years.
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Examples for "intercalary month"
Examples for "intercalary month"
1He inserted the regular intercalary month of twenty-three days, and two additional ones of sixty-seven days.
2The letter dealing with the calendar was written to inform Sin-idinnam, the governor of Larsam, that an intercalary month was to be inserted.
3In this year the January with 29 and the February with 23 days were followed by the intercalary month with 28, and then by March.
1Caesar was reforming a calendar based on 364 days, with an occasional extra leap month.