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单词 quires
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quire1 /kwīr/ (printing)

noun
  1. The twentieth part of a ream, 24 sheets of paper (now often 25) of the same size and quality
  2. Formerly, four sheets of paper or parchment folded together to make eight leaves
  3. (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

quire2 /kwīr/

noun an obsolete spelling of choir

quirister /kwirˈis-tər/ noun (obsolete)

Chorister

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