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four people considered as a unit
he joined a barbershop quartet
the foursome teed off before 9 a.m. - four performers or singers who perform together
- a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- a musical composition for four performers
How To Use quartette In A Sentence
- They are unknown but the names of that quartette have been known ever since and will be throughout Eternity. We will meet them all ourselves someday.
- If a quartette were assembled, -- and many times the musical party was enlarged to a quintette or a septette, -- an adjournment was necessary to a room less crowded, but equally sparse of conventional furniture. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
- While a youth, he established an association with the Hoffman music company in Leavenworth, directed church choirs, sang with a quartette, and organized a ‘Pickaninny Band.’
- No reason we shouldn't make a quartette of it," remarked Harley Kennan, as with his own voice he joined in. CHAPTER XXXVI
- Here the four girls -- the "quartette" as they called themselves -- would go and sit and listen to Ellen's stories of the world they had not seen. Emily Brontë
- IsbellsIsbells are the Flemish genteel-rock quartette captained by singer/songwriter Gaëtan Vandewoude (guitar), with Naïma Joris, Bart Borremans, and Gianni Marzo rounding out the lineup. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 144
- The crowd of girls was in the big "quartette" room in the West Dormitory of Briarwood Hall. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund
- Poppy & The JezebelsCool-girl Brit quartette Poppy & The Jezebels are Mollie Kingsley (vocals, bass keyboard, Theremin), Amber Bradbury (guitar), Poppy Twist (drums, Theremin), and Dom Vine (keys, synth, cello, vocals). Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 146
- Still no peace agreement in the Middle East, if you've noticed, but Tony Blair who used to be one of the world leaders speaking at the roster (ph) General Assembly, he's now a special Middle East envoy for the so-called quartette which includes the United States and the U.N. And, he is at this meeting that's currently going on now, Secretary of State Rice is there, and it's chaired at least today by the U.N. Secretary General, Bongi Moon (ph), who has a new practice he has started where every guest signs in that visits his office. CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2007
- Helgi Tomasson's Quartette is a delightful showpiece for four ballerinas, each of whom has a lengthy solo.