quartet
noun
any group of four persons or things.
quartette
-
a variation of
quartet.
Example Sentences
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Nutrition faddist John Harvey Kellogg, whose sanatorium briefly embraced Fletcherism, tried to re-enliven mealtimes by hiring a quartette to sing “The Chewing Song,” an original Kellogg composition, while diners grimly toiled.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2013
Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps of servitors, he introduces a quartette of nobles from the vicinity of the Volga.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each of the quartette seemed to be singularly ill at ease.
From A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh
At last I heard some of the Russian national songs—a quartette was singing them in one of the theatres.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
It was not for that quartette of women that I had bought the box of Monsieur Dumouton, who had seized the opportunity to entangle me in the folds of an umbrella!
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
