Coire

/ (kwar) /

noun

the French name for Chur

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You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

To cook in water that begins cold and then reaches a boil.

To stew in a sauce for a long time.

To cook in water, just below boiling temperature.

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Words nearby Coire

coinsure, coinsurer, Cointreau, coinventor, coir, Coire, coistrel, coit, coital exanthema, coition, coitus

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Example sentences from the Web for Coire

The place of the ratification is still called Comitium, from "coire," to meet.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch|Plutarch
Before we got to Coire the cool rushing night had come and the glaciers had blotted themselves out.
A Voyage of Consolation|Sara Jeannette Duncan
Munich, Erlangen, Coire and Leipzig became for brief successive intervals his home.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 1|Various
It was too much, but it saved stopping an hour at Coire for a train and shifting our luggage.
Wintering in the Riviera|William Miller

He renewed the suggestion in 1516, inviting Henry to meet him at Coire.
Henry VIII.|A. F. Pollard

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