Vulgar Era

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  1. Synonym of Common Era.
    — Ephemerides of the Celestiall Motions, for the Yeers of the Vulgar Era 1633...

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the Vulgar Era canonical

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Calque of Latin aerae vulgāris (from vulgāris, from vulgus (“the common people, i.e. those who are not royalty”)), which originates at least as early as 1615, long before vulgar came to mean “crudely indecent”. Earliest English usage is from 1635 (see quotation).
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