Al·ma·nac – Noun
Definition: An annual publication including calendars with weather forecasts, astronomical information, tide tables, and other related tabular information.
Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/almanac
Found in: Biography of a Dress by Jamaica Kincaid
Quote: “My mother saw a picture on an almanac advertising a particularly fine and scented soap and this picture of this girl wearing a yellow dress with smocking on the front bodice perhaps created in my mother the desire to have a daughter who looked like that or perhaps created the desire in my mother to try and make the daughter she already had look like that.” (page 203, 2nd paragraph)
In this quote the narrator is describing how her mother saw a picture of a girl on an annual magazine who was wearing a yellow dress which became one of the reasons why her mother had made her the yellow dress for her birthday to take a picture with. She mentions her mother wanting to make her look like the girl in that magazine.
