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quire
This term is primarily an archaic or specialized unit of measurement used in the paper and printing industries. While it was once a standard commercial term, it is now rarely encountered outside of traditional bookbinding, calligraphy, or historical contexts. It serves as a fractional unit of a ream, which typically consists of twenty quires.
Because it refers to a specific, measured quantity, it functions as a collective noun. In modern usage, it is almost exclusively used when referring to high-end stationery or handmade papers where traditional counting methods are still preserved.
Meanings
Examples
The scribe carefully prepared a quire of parchment for the new manuscript.
I only need a single quire of paper for these short letters.
Does the stationery shop still sell paper by the quire?
He bought a quire of high quality vellum for his sketches.
The archive contains several quires of handwritten notes from the eighteenth century.
Just one quire should be enough to finish the draft.
She organized her poetry into a small quire of cream colored sheets.
Wait, is a quire twenty four or twenty five sheets?