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string orchestra

British  

noun

  1. an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses

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Guests then walked through a live string orchestra and a tableau of performers dressed as woodland creatures — in tunics and tights — frolicking in the forest.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

We enter a symphonic troposphere where clouds are clotted harmonies, where turbulence is a string orchestra plucking and strumming violins and violas like guitars.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

In a concert hall in pre-revolutionary France, a man makes a beeline toward the virtuoso conducting a string orchestra to the rapt delight of his audience.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

In a nod to them, Kors’ team created an all-female soundtrack, much of it played by a live string orchestra in the center of the runway.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2023

It sounded like he was waiting for a full string orchestra to come in, something out of The Sound of Music.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt