- a variation of quintet.
quintette
Example Sentences
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Ten minutes later Lennie Browne, one of the juniors, disturbed the quintette on the wheelbarrow with a message.
From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by John Campbell
The quintette required four horns in B♭ over 8 ft. long and one B♭ basso about 17 ft. long.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
A trio, a violin sonata, and a piano quintette, a suite for strings, and a concert overture for orchestra complete the list of his writings.
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
Now that the Five Travelers, as the quintette of Sanford girls loved to call themselves, were once more settled in the country of college, their devoted friends had already planned to honor them.
From Marjorie Dean College Junior by Pauline Lester