MacFormat 1996 June/macformat-038.iso/Demos/Notting Hill/SINGING/SHARED.Dxr/01459_quire.txt

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quire

An early form of the word choir. Used both as a noun and a verb ( as was choir, originally). In 1620 the English poet Fletcher wrote of a tree “amongst whose infant leaves the birds do quire”