英语词汇“quire”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

quire

释义

quire¹ /kwīr/ (printing)

noun

The twentieth part of a ream, 24 sheets of paper (now often 25) of the same size and quality
Formerly, four sheets of paper or parchment folded together to make eight leaves
(also quair /kwār/) a (quire-filling) book or poem (obsolete)

transitive verb

To fold in quires

ORIGIN: OFr quaier (Fr cahier), prob from LL quaternum a set of four sheets, from L quattuor four

noun an obsolete spelling of choir

quirister /kwirˈis-tər/ noun (obsolete)

Chorister

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