quire

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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 (ie group of four), but may be several nested signatures
The architectural part of a church in which the choir resides, between the nave and the sanctuary
To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper

By means of these smooth pages we can mostly see how the modern binder made up the book, but whether in doing this he followed the original quiring is quite another matter.

To sing in concert

He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing-the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night.

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

and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, Villette, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre.

A book, poem, or pamphlet
A choir

And never mount to trouble you again.

{n} a body of fingers, twenty-four sheets
{v} to sing in concert or in a body
Gathering or "booklet" of which a book is formed Quire numeration, which began in the Late Antique period, consists of numbers written on a quire (usually on its final verso) to facilitate arrangement during binding
A set of leaves which are stitched together. This is most often a single signature, but may be several nested signatures
A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream
Variant of choir. 24 sheets of paper (quaer , from quaterni )
{i} one-twentieth of a ream of paper (equal to 24 or 25 sheets); set of printed sheets arranged in the proper order after folding
A British term which means the same as gathering
A gathering of usually two or more BIFOLIA (or combination of bifolia and singletons) inserted into one another and sewn together through the fold One or more quires sewn together may comprise a CODEX
a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets
A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book
one twentieth of a ream of paper (24 or 25 sheets)
quire

    Turkish pronunciation

    kwayr

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkwīr/ /ˈkwaɪr/

    Etymology

    () From Anglo-Norman quier, from Old French quaier, from Vulgar Latin *quaternus, from Latin quaterni (“four at a time”), from quater (“four times”)
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