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Synonyms for quire

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kwahyuh r
Phonetic Transcription : kwaɪər

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Définition of quire

Origin :
  • 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."
  • As in pad : noun tablet of paper
  • As in tablet : noun sheaf of papers that are connected
Example sentences :
  • I have suggested that it may have been used as a night quire.
  • Extract from : « Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury » by H. J. L. J. Mass
  • She went and fetched a quire of paper, and borrowed his pencil and wrote them down.
  • Extract from : « They and I » by Jerome K. Jerome
  • In the quire is a high tumbe, of one of them porturid with his wife.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 » by Various
  • I suppose he was so poor he couldn't afford to buy a quire of paper.
  • Extract from : « Roundabout Papers » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • If we canna preach in the kirk, we can sing mass in the quire.
  • Extract from : « The Proverbs of Scotland » by Alexander Hislop
  • By the way, Fancy, do you know why our quire is to be dismissed?
  • Extract from : « Under the Greenwood Tree » by Thomas Hardy
  • There is one tomb on the south side the quire, but without inscription.
  • Extract from : « The Survey of London » by John Stow
  • The quire that I sent is now in the hands of Johnson's friend.
  • Extract from : « The Works of William Cowper » by William Cowper
  • In the quire of the church of Eland, in a window, are painted the arms of Eland, viz.
  • Extract from : « The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire » by C. J. Davison Ingledew
  • Books may be quired in printing, that is, several sheets may be put together, like the sheets in a quire of paper.
  • Extract from : « Smithsonian Report on the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries and their Publication by Means of Separate, Stereotyped Titles » by Charles C. Jewett
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