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
Soon the octette which was singing "In the Pale Moonlight," discovered the fire over their heads and in a few moments we had the curtain run down.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
"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
He was—he should have been—used by now to the ridiculous antics of the Tucker twins and the overflowing spirits of the rest of the octette.
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
