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View synonyms for quire

quire

1

[ kwahyuhr ]

noun

  1. a set of 24 uniform sheets of paper.
  2. Bookbinding. a section of printed leaves in proper sequence after folding; gathering.


quire

2

[ kwahyuhr ]

noun

, quired, quir·ing.
  1. Archaic. an archaic spelling of choir.

quire

1

/ kwaɪə /

noun

  1. an obsolete spelling of choir
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


quire

2

/ kwaɪə /

noun

  1. a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper; a twentieth of a ream
    1. four sheets of paper folded once to form a section of 16 pages
    2. a section or gathering
  2. a set of all the sheets in a book
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of quire1

1175–1225; Middle English quayer < Middle French quaier < Vulgar Latin *quaternum set of four sheets, derivative of Latin quarternī four each
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Word History and Origins

Origin of quire1

C15 quayer, from Old French quaier, from Latin quaternī four at a time, from quater four times
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Example Sentences

Commissary's inkstand was a coffee-cup without an handle, and his book of entries a quire of dirty writing-paper.

Both before and after sermon I was most impatiently troubled at the Quire, the worst that ever I heard.

Two curtains worked with golden blazonries divided the quire from the congregation.

"This is where you'll sit," said Dom Cuthbert, pointing to two kneeling-chairs on either side of the opening into the quire.

And there they laid his corpse in the body of the quire, and sang and read many psalters and prayers over him and about him.

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