parchment vs quire

parchment

noun
  • Stiff paper imitating that material. 

  • A document made on such material. 

  • The creamy to tanned color of parchment. 

  • Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing. 

  • The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp. 

  • A diploma (traditionally written on parchment). 

quire

noun
  • One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold. 

  • A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures. 

  • One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse. 

  • A book, poem, or pamphlet. 

verb
  • To sing in concert. 

  • To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper. 

How often have the words parchment and quire occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )