quire

Related topics: Newspapers, printing, publishing

quire /kwaɪə $ kwaɪr/ noun [countableC] → choir

technicalTCN 24 sheets of paper 一刀纸〔24张〕

Examples from the Corpus

quire• This could be an alternative route back to the turret, I thought, a route to bypass the quire.• Escaping from the quire was no easier than getting into it.• There was no way into the quire climbing over his lordship, but under ...?• That got me moving east fast, searching hard now for access to the quire.

Origin quire

(1400-1500) Old French quaer “four sheets of paper folded once”, from Latin quaterni “four each, set of four”

单词	quire
释义	quire Related topics: Newspapers, printing, publishing quire /kwaɪə $ kwaɪr/ noun [countableC] → choir technicalTCN 24 sheets of paper 一刀纸〔24张〕 Examples from the Corpus quire• This could be an alternative route back to the turret, I thought, a route to bypass the quire.• Escaping from the quire was no easier than getting into it.• There was no way into the quire climbing over his lordship, but under ...?• That got me moving east fast, searching hard now for access to the quire. Origin quire (1400-1500) Old French quaer “four sheets of paper folded once”, from Latin quaterni “four each, set of four”
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