cahier
9.9
A group of folded sheets sewn together to form part of a book
- noun
- /kæˈjeɪ/
- Specialized
:
cuadernillo
- But it is true that the discourse is not a tidy, tightly written work, but more an overflow of the cornucopian cahiers.
Examples
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At the library, I found a cahier that contained essays on contemporary art.
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He carefully noted his observations in the cahier provided by the study program.
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The artist filled her cahier with sketches of the city landmarks.
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Etymology
Cahier comes from French and an old Latin word quaternus meaning 'four' (the same root as the English word quarter); printers folded sheets into groups of four to make a section, so a cahier is a bundle of folded pages sewn together.