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quire (kwīr)

noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb quired, quiring 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

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