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Definition of Quartette

1. Noun. Four performers or singers who perform together.

2. Noun. A set of four similar things considered as a unit.

3. Noun. Four people considered as a unit. "The foursome teed off before 9 a.m."

4. Noun. A musical composition for four performers.

Definition of Quartette

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of quartet) ¹

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Definition of Quartette

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quartette

quarterpounders quarters quartersaw quartersawed quartersawing quartersawn quartersaws quarterstaff quarterstaffs quarterstaves

quartervine quartes quartet quartets quartett quartette (current term) quartettes quartetts quartic quartic function

quartic polynomial quartics quartier quartiers quartile quartiles quartine quartino quartinos quartirolo

Literary usage of Quartette

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"All the divisions of this cell except the first one are purely bilateral in position. IV. HISTORY OF THE FIRST quartette OF ..."

2. Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Leo Wiener (1903)
"THE quartette The tricksy Monkey, the Goat, the Ass, and bandy-legged Mishka ... But the quartette is as unmusical as ever. Louder than before there arose ..."

3. Music (1897)
"The third of the Spiering quartette concerts took place in Handel Hall. ... The quartette had naturally a more arduous task than in the Beethoven quartette ..."

4. Folio (1885)
"quartette in G, with solue for soprano and bass While. All the Earth is glad again. quartette in Bb White. Christmas Anthem. quartette in F, with soprano ..."

5. In a Persian Garden: A Song-cycle for Four Solo Voices (soprano, Contralto by Liza Lehmann, Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1896)
"CONTAINING quartette—Wake ! for the sun who scatter'd into flight. SOLO TENOR—Before the phantom ... quartette—Come till the cup, and in the tire of spring. ..."

6. The Early Development of Planorbis by Samuel Jackson Holmes (1900)
"The Fourth quartette. —The fourth quartette is produced by a ... The number of cells in the egg when the fourth quartette is formed is forty-nine. ..."

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