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quire
1[ kwahyuhr ]
noun
- a set of 24 uniform sheets of paper.
- Bookbinding. a section of printed leaves in proper sequence after folding; gathering.
quire
2[ kwahyuhr ]
noun
- Archaic. an archaic spelling of choir.
quire
2/ kwaɪə /
noun
- a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper; a twentieth of a ream
- four sheets of paper folded once to form a section of 16 pages
- a section or gathering
- a set of all the sheets in a book
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Origin of quire1
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Example Sentences
Commissary's inkstand was a coffee-cup without an handle, and his book of entries a quire of dirty writing-paper.
Both before and after sermon I was most impatiently troubled at the Quire, the worst that ever I heard.
Two curtains worked with golden blazonries divided the quire from the congregation.
"This is where you'll sit," said Dom Cuthbert, pointing to two kneeling-chairs on either side of the opening into the quire.
And there they laid his corpse in the body of the quire, and sang and read many psalters and prayers over him and about him.
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