quire

Speech parts

1. quire - Noun

2. quire - Verb

Meaning

See Choir.

To sing in concert.

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.

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Hailed by Quill & Quire as one of the season’s most-anticipated Canadian non-fiction titles, the book lives up to that advance billing. Source: Internet

The next stage was tacking the quire. Source: Internet

Tacking is when the scribe would hold together the leaves in quire with thread. Source: Internet

For example, in mainland Europe throughout the Middle Ages, the quire was put into a system in which each side folded on to the same style. Source: Internet

Forming the quire From the Carolingian period and all the way up to the Middle Ages, different styles of folding the quire came about. Source: Internet

Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham point out, in "Introduction to Manuscript Studies", that "the quire was the scribe's basic writing unit throughout the Middle Ages". Source: Internet

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