quair

/ kwɛə; kwer /

noun

Origin of quair¹

a variant of quire ¹

Such seems also to be the meaning in the passage in the Kingis Quair, st. 47, which was probably imitated from the present one.

It is much more removed from our language than the Kings Quair.

There cannot, in truth, be two opinions about the Kingis Quair.

Perhaps Quair's inheritance had been humor, but to some it seemed perilously akin to mother-wit.

"If you two unusually intelligent gentlemen ask me what good a woman the world—" began Quair.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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