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quire

/kwahyuhr/US // kwaɪər //UK // (kwaɪə) //

渴望,渴望的,渴望得到,渴望获得

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a set of 24 uniform sheets of paper.
    • : Bookbinding. a section of printed leaves in proper sequence after folding; gathering.

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Examples

  • Commissary's inkstand was a coffee-cup without an handle, and his book of entries a quire of dirty writing-paper.

  • Both before and after sermon I was most impatiently troubled at the Quire, the worst that ever I heard.

  • Two curtains worked with golden blazonries divided the quire from the congregation.

  • "This is where you'll sit," said Dom Cuthbert, pointing to two kneeling-chairs on either side of the opening into the quire.

  • And there they laid his corpse in the body of the quire, and sang and read many psalters and prayers over him and about him.