- a variation of quartet.
quartette
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
The quartette were about to separate the last car from the train.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
Each of the quartette seemed to be singularly ill at ease.
From A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh
Among the vilest of the lampooners of that age were a quartette of literary hacks who for some years were engaged in denouncing the federalist party and government.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
