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Quartern

noun
1.
One of four equal parts.  Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent.





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"Quartern" Quotes from Famous Books



... see Paris deprived for so long of its Opera, became as sorrowful as if the arrivals of grain had ceased, or bread had risen to more than seven sous the quartern loaf. It was melancholy to see the nobility, the army, and the citizens without their after-dinner amusement; and to see the promenades thronged with the unemployed divinities, from the chorus-singers ...
— The Queen's Necklace • Alexandre Dumas pere
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... men have no hesitation in attributing many diseases incidental to children to the use of eating adulterated bread; others again will not admit these allegations: they persuade themselves that the small quantity of alum added to the bread (perhaps upon an average, from eight to ten grains to a quartern loaf,) is ...
— A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons • Fredrick Accum
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Words linked to "Quartern" :   common fraction, simple fraction


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