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Quartette   Listen
noun
Quartette, Quartet  n.  
1.
(Mus.)
(a)
A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
(b)
The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.
2.
(Poet.) A stanza of four lines.





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"Quartette" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ball every winter and the Catholic picnic every summer; and music—the town band in the park every Wednesday evening, and the Oddfellows' brass band on the street every other Friday; the Mariposa Quartette, the Salvation Army—why, after a few months' residence you begin to realize that the place is a ...
— Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town • Stephen Leacock
... the intrusion, the quartette conferred with their eyes, a language which is perhaps only successful in love. Captain Cooper, who was usually moved to speech by externals, was ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... The quartette filed through into a carpeted corridor, and Mrs. Sin reclosed the false back of the cupboard, which, viewed from the other side, proved to be a door fitted into a recess in the corridor of the adjoining house. This recess ceased ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... waving hands and pleasant chaffing, that showed what real good chums the quartette were, the men struck out for the centre of the river, leaving their sons watching from the strand before the camp that was pitched beneath the shadow ...
— The Fiery Totem - A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West • Argyll Saxby
... on high stools, crouching over big ledgers, dropped their pens and turning on their spiral seats looked at me with staring eyes, and with mouths wide open. I repeated the question and one of the quartette, a wheezy little old man in spectacles and with whiskers on his neck, clambered down from his elevated position and ambled over near, walking ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women • Elbert Hubbard


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