quarte
noun
the fourth of eight defensive positions.
quartes
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pluralof quarte.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Your wines shalbe solde by hogs heads, pipes or buttes, but not by quartes nor pintes.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Richard Hakluyt
Therefore if a cubicall foote doe conteine 4 quarters, as we commonly call them, then shall the vessell conteine 822.6/7 quartes, that is almost 823 quartes.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
The learned dog again scraped together the heroism of the Duke of Wellington, the dwarf again showed his not-to-be-parried tierces and quartes, and Mademoiselle Laurence again began her wondrous dance.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
