Quire

Quick meaning: Quire is a noun meaning A book, poem, or pamphlet.

Meaning

A book, poem, or pamphlet.

More Meanings

1. (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
2. Poetic spelling of choir (“to sing in concert”).
3. 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.
4. (architecture) Uncommon form of choir (“one quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse”).
5. (bookbinding) 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.
6. Archaic spelling of choir (“group of people who sing together”).

Example Sentences

Under the year 1533 we are told that the ream contained twenty quires.

This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion.

Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout.

1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]

Word Forms

• quires
• quiring
• quired

Related Words

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