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  1. noun A set of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock; one twentieth of a ream.
  2. noun A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book.
  3. noun Archaic Variant of choir.

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  1. Middle English quayer, four double sheets of paper, from Old French quaer, from Vulgar Latin *quaternus, from Latin quaternī, set of four, four each, from quater, four times; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also quier, queer; from Middle English queer, quere, quer, queor, from Old French cuer, French chœur = Provencal cor = Spanish Portuguese Italian coro = Dutch koor = German chor = Swedish kör = Danish kor = Anglo-Saxon chor (rare), from Latin chorus, from Greek χορός, a dance, chorus: see chorus. Cf. choir, a modern spelling simulating, like the modern F. chœur, the L. spelling, but with pron. of quire.
  2. from quire, n.
  3. Earlymod. English also quier, queer, quere; from Middle English quayer, quaier, quair, quayre, quaer, cwaer (= Icelandic kver, a quire, a book), from Old French quaier, quayer, caier, cayer, coyer, a quire (also a square lamp), French cahier, a quire (six sheets), a copy-book, writing-book, written lectures, a memorial, = Provencal cazern = Italian quaderno, a quire, a copy-book, writing-book, cash-book, two fours at dice, from Middle Latin quaternum, a set of four sheets of parchment or paper, neuter of quaternus (later Old French quaier, caier, etc., = Old Italian quaderno, four-square), plural quaterni, four at a time: see quatern. For Old French quaer, quaier, from Latin quaternum, cf. enfer, from Latin infernum.
 

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