Quire

(noun.) a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets.

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• Will you allow me to in-quire wy you make up your bed under that 'ere deal table? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The Count walked to a writing-table near the window, opened his desk, and took from it several quires of paper and a bundle of quill pens. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Other kinds of cutting machines are contrived, by which sheets of writing paper, when collected in quires, are squeezed tightly together, and their edges are smoothly and evenly cut. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The bands of paper then passed on to shears, placed transversely, that cut it into sheets of any required length, which were laid upon one another, to be divided into quires. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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