Coire

/ (kwar) /

noun

the French name for Chur

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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