| 单词 | quire book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquire book quire book n. now historical and rare a book composed of a single quire of paper, typically used as a notebook or for keeping accounts. ΚΠ 1700 Edinb. Gaz. 23–6 Sept. Dropt or Lost, a Quair Book in Ottavo, Bound end wayes, about on [sic] third of it written in short hand. 1781 B. Franklin Let. 13 Sept. in B. B. Oberg Papers B. Franklin (1999) XXXV. 471 Among my Papers..were eight or ten quire or 2 quire Books of rough Drafts of my Letters. 1905 Musical Times 46 525/2 A fine specimen of a ‘Quire Book’..contained compositions of Robert Fayrfax, organist of St. Albans Abbey in the last decade of the 15th century. 2002 A. O. Thompson Unprofitable Servants iv. 114 He dictated to the bookkeeper those items of income and expenditure which he expected that individual to place in a quire book, called a subsidiary journal, theoretically made up monthly. < as lemmas |
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