quintette

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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 Hughes, Rupert

And looking downward, the quintette saw the bottom strewn with oysters of unusual size, lying so close together that in many places they seemed to touch each other.

From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

The quintette at the window watched him with interest and admiration now, as he strode along the gravelled avenue leading to the Presidents' house.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

The west front possesses a quintette of portals, deeply recessed, but of a decidedly mixed Gothic and Renaissance treatment as to decoration.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche

I heard the Meistersingers' quintette sung in Paris.

From On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music by Saint-Saëns, Camille