Coire

/ (kwar) /

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noun

the French name for Chur

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Words nearby Coire

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

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How to use Coire in a sentence

Putant quidam glaciem coire, et in Crystallum corporari, sed frustra.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 1 of 3)|Thomas Browne
The bishop therefore permitted him to continue his practice at Coire and its neighborhood.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery|Robert Means Lawrence
Her father, an artist, had gone from Schwarzenburg to Coire to execute some frescoes in a church, and had married there.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Coire an Easain (corrie an easan), Corrie of the little waterfall.
Gairloch In North-West Ross-Shire|John H. Dixon, F.S.A. Scot

In 1526, by the Articles of Ilanz, the last remaining traces of the temporal jurisdiction of the bishop of Coire was abolished.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5|Various