quire
2- Archaic. choir.
Examples from the Web for quiring
Historical Examples of quiring
Shakespeare himself ranged from gross naturalism to the quiring of cherubim.
Ivory Apes and PeacocksJames Huneker
Now it is a merry din of quiring finches, all talking together.
Doctor CupidRhoda Broughton
It is as if the pearly gates had been opened for a brief interval to let the earth hear the “quiring of the young-eyed cherubims.”
Some Spring Days in IowaFrederick John Lazell
Mother kept 'quiring 'bout 'em as long as she lived and I have hoped dat I could hear from 'em.
quire
1- a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper; a twentieth of a ream
- four sheets of paper folded once to form a section of 16 pages
- a section or gathering
- a set of all the sheets in a book
Word Origin for quire
quire
2- an obsolete spelling of choir
Word Origin and History for quiring
quire
c.1200, "set of four folded pages for a book; pamphlet consisting of a single quire," from Anglo-French quier, Old French quaier "sheet of paper folded in four," from Vulgar Latin *quaternus, from Latin quaterni "four each," from quater "four times." Meaning "standard unit for selling paper" first recorded late 14c. In quires (late 15c.) means "unbound."
quire
early form and later variant spelling of choir (q.v.).