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QUIRE (in earlier forms quaer, quaer and quere, from the O. Fr. quaier, modern cahier, a copy-book, manuscript book; Lat. quaterni, set of four, from quattuor)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 763 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
QUIRE (in earlier forms quaer, quaer and quere, from the O. Fr. quaier, modern cahier, a copy-book, manuscript book; Lat. quaterni, set of four, from quattuor) , originally the
term
  for four sheets of
paper
  or parchment folded so as to make eight leaves, the
ordinary
  unit in manuscripts and early printed books; the
term
  is now chiefly applied to a twentieth
part
  of a ream of writing
paper
 , twenty-four sheets. In bookbinding and publishing the expression " in quires " is used of the sheets of a book when not folded or bound. "
Quire
  " was formerly
used of a small book contained in a single
quire
  of paper, and so is frequently found in the title of short poems,
treatises
 , &c. A
familiar
  example is the Kingis Quair of King James I. of
Scotland
 . " Choir," a
body
  of singers or the
part
  of a church where the singers sit, was formerly spelled " quire," following the pronunciation of the word (See CHOIR).


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