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quintette

  • a variation of quintet.
    quintet
    noun
    any set or group of five persons or things.

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The music stopped just then and our quintette with the partners collected in our corner.

From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

The flying wheel of arms and legs slacked, ran a few times, then slowly stopped, and the Polydore quintette assumed normal positions.

From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates

All of these movements are performed without pause, and the result is so successful that Whiting is using the same plan for a quintette.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

We wanted to mark ourselves in some way so that we could be told by one another, so we put on each back in black chalk a mystic V, standing for five, our quintette.

From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

The Seniors want all of our quintette to serve on the committee of entertainment.

From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed