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Synonyms for quartette


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kwawr-tet
Phonetic Transcription : kwɔrˈtɛt

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Définition of quartette

Origin :
  • 1773, "musical composition for four instruments or voices," from French quartette, from Italian quartetto, diminutive of quarto "fourth," from Latin quartus "fourth" (see quart). Meaning "set of four singers or musical performers" is from 1814.
  • As in four : noun four of something
Example sentences :
  • The quartette started for the station with Patience and Emma in the lead.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • But his joy was materially lessened when the quartette left the house.
  • Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Laban worked the hardest of the quartette, but Issy made the most fuss about it.
  • Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • As a matter of fact, however, the quartette of two boys and two girls was not exceeded.
  • Extract from : « Sir Walter Scott » by George Saintsbury
  • Every venomous word he was uttering now he directed straight at the quartette.
  • Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers
  • I promised to go and listen to the quartette party this evening.
  • Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray
  • There was a full-fledged panic in that quartette room in an instant.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies » by Alice B. Emerson
  • I want you young larks to sing me the quartette we were talking of the other day.
  • Extract from : « The Heiress of Wyvern Court » by Emilie Searchfield
  • Its conclusion was an order to the quartette to go down on the walk again.
  • Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely
  • I supposed he was busy makin' up his quartette for that Southern cruise.
  • Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford

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