Meaning & use
Quire
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A set of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, or a group of folded sheets in a bound book.
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The printer ordered several quires of high-quality stationery for the invitations.
The medieval scribe added a fresh quire of parchment to the growing manuscript.
A note on using this word
Not to be confused with 'choir'; the two words are pronounced identically but have entirely different origins, 'quire' coming from Latin 'quaterni,' meaning 'four each.'
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