half-quire

[ haf-kwiuhr, hahf- ]

noun

1. 12 uniform sheets of paper.

Example Sentences

‘Half-quire of paper for a penny,’ bellows the street stationer.

From The Guardian

“Half-quire of paper for a penny,” bellows the street-stationer.

From Project Gutenberg

He appears to be engaged partly in the degustation of an unappetizing lead pencil, and partly in the contemplation of a half-quire of notepaper.

From Project Gutenberg

Before doing any other business, Alden Lytton took a half-quire of note-paper and dashed off an exuberant letter to his lady-love, in which, after repeating the oft-told story of her peerless loveliness and his deathless devotion, he came down to practical matters, and spoke of their mutual friend Mary Grey.

From Project Gutenberg

I should indeed have begun to indite before, but I had not a p. 261scrap of serviceable paper in the house: and I am only this minute returned from a wet walk to Woodbridge bringing home the sheet on which I am now writing, along with the rest of a half-quire, which may be filled to you, if we both live. 

From Project Gutenberg