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quire¹ Definition

quire (kwīr)

noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb quired, quir·ing

Archaic choir

quire² Definition

quire (kwīr)

noun

a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock, the twentieth part of a ream

Etymology: ME quair < OFr quaer, book of loose pages < VL quaternum, paper packed in lots of four pages < L quaterni, four each: see quaternary

quire Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • paper: Clemens covered a good many quires of paper with caustic replies.
  • cathedral: I found an exhausted person sitting in the quire of the Cathedral looking up at the Great East Window.

Converse of object

  • have: As always give us a ring if you have a quire and ask for Big " H "
  • make: Each sheet was distinctively marked to make sure the quires could not get muddled up.
  • link: SEWING ON SUPPORTS The process of linking the QUIRES of a manuscript into book form by sewing them on to CORDS.
  • form: It was common Anglo-Saxon practice to form a quire from four sheets of parchment - folded to make eight leaves.

Adjective modifier

  • single: This codex of the letters of Paul was made out of one single quire.
  • many: Clemens covered a good many quires of paper with caustic replies.

Modifies a noun

  • aisle: The pavement came from the site of a 3rd-century Roman villa along with a mural displayed on the wall of the south quire aisle.

Noun used with modifier

  • re-: Among other things, this re- quires that you do not remove or modify the etext or this " Small Print!
  • century: It has a romanesque crypt, twelfth century quire and thirteenth century stained glass windows.

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