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Quartet

noun

The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one. Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad.

Four performers or singers who perform together. Synonym: quartette.

A set of four similar things considered as a unit. Synonyms: quadruple, quadruplet, quartette.

Four people considered as a unit. Synonyms: foursome, quartette. "The foursome teed off before 9 a.m."

A musical composition for four performers. Synonym: quartette.

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"Quartet" Quotes from Famous Books

... in a dream. I well remember hearing four musicians with little instruments like silver flutes play a quartet of infinite sweetness; but most of my adventures take place either among fine landscapes or in ...

— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson

... and a courtesy that seemed to be entirely unaffected. It was found that the most generous and thoughtful provision had been made for our comfort. The colored chef prepared a dinner which would have tickled the palate of an epicure, much more those of a quartet of hungry officers directly from the front. There were champagne and cigars in abundance of a quality such as would have been good enough had General Hancock himself been the guest. The host was courtesy itself, an excellent raconteur, a good fellow, ...

— Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman - With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War • J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd

... the orchestration. There are some moments in "Elektra" when sounds come out of the orchestra that tug at the very roots of the hair, sounds so unearthly that they suggest a caroling of dragons or bierfisch—and yet they are made by the same old fiddles that play the Kaiser Quartet, and by the same old trombones that the Valkyrie ride like witch's broomsticks, and by the same old flutes that sob and snuffle in Tit'l's Serenade. And in parts of "Feuersnot"—but Roget must be rewritten by Strauss ...

— Damn! - A Book of Calumny • Henry Louis Mencken

Words linked to "Quartet" : piece of music, opus, piece, figure, assemblage, musical group, gathering, musical composition, musical organization, set, digit, composition, quadrumvirate, musical organisation