octet
noun
a company of eight singers or musicians.
octette
-
a variation of
octet.
Example Sentences
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An octette of Republican ladies, wearing coonskin caps, trooped around town chanting a six-stanza ode to Sam Hopkins, written to the tune of Davy Crockett.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tell you it’s a truly rural octette.
From The Real Latin Quarter by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith
"We're the live-wire octette, and we are going to let everybody know it," proclaimed Tommy Tucker vociferously.
From Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp by Alice B. Emerson
Until their sisters grew up, the younger boys sang the treble and alto parts, but finally they were able to manage a male-voice quartet, a trio of ladies' voices, and a combined family octette.
From The Days Before Yesterday by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
The young people passed a merry hour at Nora's, indulging in one of their old-time frolics, that only lacked Tom Gray's presence to make the original octette complete.
From Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
