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noun
a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
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Origin of duet 1730â40; earlier
duett <Italian
duetto, equivalent to
du (
o ) duet +
-etto -et
OTHER WORDS FROM duet du·et·tist, noun
Words nearby duet duenna ,
due process of law ,
Duero ,
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due to ,
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Dufay ,
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duffel
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How to use duet in a sentence The pictures resurfaced again this month after Combs released a duet with Billy Strings called âThe Great Divideâ that urges unity.
Soon after, Evans posted his performance of âSoon May the Wellerman Come,â which promptly went viral and set off a flood of duet s, remixes, and copies.
To understand someone else, you need to both capture your own thoughts as well as gauge the intention of the other person, whether youâre cooking a meal together, playing a duet , or knowing when to take turns in conversation.
For example, our group has studied female song and male-female duet s in Venezuelan troupials, a tropical species that sings year-round to defend territories.
Researchers began to study how female birds use their songs, how females learn songs, and why females in some species join their mates to sing precisely coordinated duet s.
Zach Braff and Donald Faison The Scrubs stars reunited to sing this holiday duet .
As has been well-trodden at this point, the lyrics to this classic duet are quite concerning.
The cartoons zing, whirr, and reverberate harmonically, making each entry a sort of duet .
And then my duet with Kathryn, and my first duet with Valerie, the contemporary that Travis Wall choreographed.
Even Prince himself turns up for a duet on The Electric Lady.
For some moments the girls talked a rapid duet , then Isabel turned suddenly and beckoned.
Once he learnt, with his aunt, the exceedingly florid duet in Semiramide, and sang the soprano part admirably.
Life is packed with little unheard of dramas of precisely the same sortâthe eternal duet of sex; nothing else keeps it going.
As Chopin's playing was equally sympathetic to Slavik, they formed the project of writing a duet for violin and piano.
For on that day he played with his fellow-pupil Tellefsen, at a concert given by the latter in Paris, a duet of Schumann's.
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British Dictionary definitions for duet
noun
Also called (esp for instrumental compositions): duo a musical composition for two performers or voices
an action or activity performed by a pair of closely connected individuals
verb duets , duetting or duetted
Derived forms of duet duettist , noun Word Origin for duet C18: from Italian duetto a little duet, from duo duet, from Latin: two
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