quire
n. 纸的一刀 [化] 刀
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One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
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A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
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A book, poem, or pamphlet.
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One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
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Archaic spelling of choir (“group of people who sing together”).
古体1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]
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To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
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Poetic spelling of choir (“to sing in concert”).
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From Middle English quayer, from Anglo-Norman quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”). Doublet of cahier.
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