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Answer for the clue "Zodiac-sign division ", 5 letters:
decan

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n. (context astrology English) The subdivision of a zodiacal sign into a period of 10 days or 10 degrees.

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Deçan or Dečani ( Albanian and ; , Dečani , ) is a town and municipality in the Gjakova district of western Kosovo . It is a mountainous area which borders Montenegro and Albania. There is a total of 36 villages within the municipality. The territory of ...

Usage examples of decan.

The division of the first Decan of the Virgin, Aben Ezra says, represents a beautiful Virgin with flowing hair, sitting in a chair, with two ears of corn in her hand, and suckling an infant.

Verulam gives obscene blows of triumphant bestiality with his groin against the frame, miming the events of the celestial orbs in the domain of the decans in order to understand the ultimate secrets of the Great Establishment and the secret of the New Atlantis itself, which he calls Gottlieb’s, parodying the sacred language of the manifestoes attributed to Andreae.