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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 944 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REAM (either through Du. riem, or O.Fr. reyme, reyme, mod. rame, Med.
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Lat. risma, from Arabic rizmah,
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bale or bundle)  , a certain quantity of
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paper, viz . 20 quires containing 24 sheets each or 48o sheets; a " printer's
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ream " contains 214 quires or 516 sheets . The word owes its introduction into
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Europe to the
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Moors, who were the originators of the paper manufactured in
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Spain . Its
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original meaning was simply bundle, applied either to paper or clothes .

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