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half-quire

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[haf-kwiuhr, hahf-] / ˈhæfˈkwɪər, ˈhɑf- /

noun

  1. 12 uniform sheets of paper.


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I have taken another half sheet to finish my letter upon: so as my calculation of how far this half-quire p. 266is to spread over Time is defeated. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright

Taking another half-quire, he went through with the same operation;—in vain.

From The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

He appears to be engaged partly in the degustation of an unappetizing lead pencil, and partly in the contemplation of a half-quire of notepaper.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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