Definition of quartet in English:

quartet

(also quartette)

noun kwɔːˈtɛtkwɔrˈtɛt

1A group of four people playing music or singing together.
四重奏；四重唱
Example sentencesExamples
- The piece's next movement, a canon at the octave, frames the first four movements together, but the quartet chose not to play it tonight.
- There was rhythmic propulsion and vigor in the fast sections, yet the quartet never exaggerated the music's pulse.
- A chamber music quartet was rehearsing for a Vivaldi recital, and it was gorgeous.
- Those who fought against racial segregation decried its social and cultural boundaries as inhuman nonsense: Jazz quartets and symphony orchestras were appropriate forms of expression for whoever happened to enjoy them.
- The quartet has been writing new songs so immensely good, their talent scares me sometimes.
- In their 25th year of marriage, Mom started singing with a country gospel music quartet led by a guy named Gordon.
- There's a jazz quartet playing mood music under the neon coloured strip lights barely audible in the hubbub of a full bar and seating area.
- He treasured his church family, Bible studies, Gideon involvements and singing in male quartets.
- Chicago quartet L' Altra make music for rainy Sundays: gentle, gauzy and not a little wistful.
- And my grand-uncles had a gospel quartet that would sing at church and community events.
- While a youth, he established an association with the Hoffman music company in Leavenworth, directed church choirs, sang with a quartette, and organized a ‘Pickaninny Band.’
- Barbershop singing originated in the US at the turn of the last century, when quartets would sing in real barbers' shops.
- Brady Johnson has been singing in gospel quartets for many years and is a member of the Muddy River Quartet.
- To add to the occasion there was a jazz quartet, playing lively music and cheering people up on an otherwise murky day.
- He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets.
- Players will be judged in the following groups: Under 13, Under 16, Under 21, orchestras, ensembles, quartets, duets, sight reading and solo performances.
- The quartet delivered this music with no holds barred abandon.
- Also, those four people will be playing in a quartet in a music hall not too far from here.
- After the interval we heard a recorder quartet playing rediscovered music by Vaughan Williams.
- Each of the cafes along the edges of the square had a band, mostly quartets playing classical music or jazz or some show tunes.
- We've been playing for 25 years, and we played very intensively together, and then we invited people to join us, so I have luxuriated in trios and quartets and quintets.
Synonyms
group, band, orchestra, combo
1. 1.1 A composition for a quartet.
  四重奏曲；四重唱曲
  a Beethoven quartet
  Example sentencesExamples
  For years the op.33 quartets have been singled out as ‘composed in a new and entirely special way’.
  Some of his chamber works are the eight string quartets, two piano trios, two piano quintets, a piano quartet and sonatas for violin and cello.
  In both quartets, the subtle shifts in composition and coloration occur within a repeating, reductivist composition of standardized top and bottom horizontal stripes bracketing square fields of identical size.
  The reason for the delayed première of the fifth quartet was because of the circumstances of its composition.
  There is a great deal of Dvorak chamber music - 14 string quartets and three quintets, as well as 10 trios, quartets and quintets with piano - and only a fraction of it is heard regularly in recitals.
  The Nielsen songs and the Langgaard quartet were recorded earlier in the month, in performance, but not in competition.
  The sound of the Zehetmair Quartet - refined, lean and coolly transparent - isn't obviously suited to full-blooded romantic works like the quartets Schumann composed in 1840.
  Ian has composed over sixty pieces including concertos for organ, cello, alto saxophone, violin, marimba and piano, orchestral pieces, six chamber quartets, three piano trios, and many other chamber and vocal works.
  It is not for nothing they have recorded for this same label a couple of quartets by Roberto Gerhard, an exiled Spanish composer who could be seen thoughtfully pacing the streets of Cambridge during my time there.
  This quartet is musically closer to the quartets of fellow Theresienstadt composers Ullmann and Schulhoff.
  Not only can a listener trace the progress of Bartók's musical style over the course of the six quartets, but you get a chance to hear some of the best music the 20th century had to offer.
  Musical accompaniment is provided by a piano quartet with additional percussion.
  However, it is not a complete cycle, for it was recorded (in collaboration with the composer in Moscow in the late 1960s) before Shostakovich had composed his 14th and 15th quartets.
  Indeed, Durey wrote his first and second quartets quite close together and followed with a third in 1927-28.
  His earliest extant chamber music for strings comprises the two sextets: in these the additional instruments give a full sound, which he achieved eventually in the quartets composed in middle life.
  The century was nearing its end and Székely had never heard his quartet performed in concert.
  It would be going a little far, however, to claim that the intrinsic musical merit of Dvorak's early quartets is as interesting or as endlessly refreshing as that of Beethoven's opus 18 works.
  He counts work on Shostakovich's quartets with Rostropovich as among the high points of his musical life.
  Burney recorded that his instrumental works - symphonies, concertos, octets, quartets, and trios - were as popular as his vocal music.
  The repertoire of piano quartets and quintets is not a huge one, so good ones should not be jettisoned.
2. 1.2 A set of four people or things.
  四人组；四件套
  a quartet of comfortable armchairs
  Example sentencesExamples
  The plate is composed of a quartet of salads around a small mound of baby greens.
  Astronomers using telescopes on Mauna Kea have found an extremely rare quartet of stars that orbit each other within a region smaller than Jupiter's orbit round the Sun.
  It's a good bet that at least 11 of the 12 drivers who will make NASCAR's version of the playoffs will come from this quartet of teams.
  A quartet of powerhouse teams, each with a uniquely skilled star, is set for a showdown in San Antonio in the strongest Final Four ever.
  A regular ministerial telephone conference of the Quartet of international mediators for Middle East settlement took place on February 20.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the general sense 'set of four'): from French quartette, from Italian quartetto, from quarto 'fourth', from Latin quartus.

Rhymes

abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette

Definition of quartet in US English:

quartet

nounkwôrˈtetkwɔrˈtɛt

1A group of four people playing music or singing together.
四重奏；四重唱
Example sentencesExamples
- Brady Johnson has been singing in gospel quartets for many years and is a member of the Muddy River Quartet.
- The quartet delivered this music with no holds barred abandon.
- And my grand-uncles had a gospel quartet that would sing at church and community events.
- He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets.
- Players will be judged in the following groups: Under 13, Under 16, Under 21, orchestras, ensembles, quartets, duets, sight reading and solo performances.
- Also, those four people will be playing in a quartet in a music hall not too far from here.
- A chamber music quartet was rehearsing for a Vivaldi recital, and it was gorgeous.
- While a youth, he established an association with the Hoffman music company in Leavenworth, directed church choirs, sang with a quartette, and organized a ‘Pickaninny Band.’
- Each of the cafes along the edges of the square had a band, mostly quartets playing classical music or jazz or some show tunes.
- In their 25th year of marriage, Mom started singing with a country gospel music quartet led by a guy named Gordon.
- Those who fought against racial segregation decried its social and cultural boundaries as inhuman nonsense: Jazz quartets and symphony orchestras were appropriate forms of expression for whoever happened to enjoy them.
- Barbershop singing originated in the US at the turn of the last century, when quartets would sing in real barbers' shops.
- After the interval we heard a recorder quartet playing rediscovered music by Vaughan Williams.
- The piece's next movement, a canon at the octave, frames the first four movements together, but the quartet chose not to play it tonight.
- The quartet has been writing new songs so immensely good, their talent scares me sometimes.
- Chicago quartet L' Altra make music for rainy Sundays: gentle, gauzy and not a little wistful.
- We've been playing for 25 years, and we played very intensively together, and then we invited people to join us, so I have luxuriated in trios and quartets and quintets.
- He treasured his church family, Bible studies, Gideon involvements and singing in male quartets.
- To add to the occasion there was a jazz quartet, playing lively music and cheering people up on an otherwise murky day.
- There's a jazz quartet playing mood music under the neon coloured strip lights barely audible in the hubbub of a full bar and seating area.
- There was rhythmic propulsion and vigor in the fast sections, yet the quartet never exaggerated the music's pulse.
Synonyms
group, band, orchestra, combo
1. 1.1 A composition for a quartet.
  四重奏曲；四重唱曲
  a Beethoven quartet
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, it is not a complete cycle, for it was recorded (in collaboration with the composer in Moscow in the late 1960s) before Shostakovich had composed his 14th and 15th quartets.
  The reason for the delayed première of the fifth quartet was because of the circumstances of its composition.
  Burney recorded that his instrumental works - symphonies, concertos, octets, quartets, and trios - were as popular as his vocal music.
  It is not for nothing they have recorded for this same label a couple of quartets by Roberto Gerhard, an exiled Spanish composer who could be seen thoughtfully pacing the streets of Cambridge during my time there.
  Indeed, Durey wrote his first and second quartets quite close together and followed with a third in 1927-28.
  The repertoire of piano quartets and quintets is not a huge one, so good ones should not be jettisoned.
  For years the op.33 quartets have been singled out as ‘composed in a new and entirely special way’.
  The sound of the Zehetmair Quartet - refined, lean and coolly transparent - isn't obviously suited to full-blooded romantic works like the quartets Schumann composed in 1840.
  His earliest extant chamber music for strings comprises the two sextets: in these the additional instruments give a full sound, which he achieved eventually in the quartets composed in middle life.
  The Nielsen songs and the Langgaard quartet were recorded earlier in the month, in performance, but not in competition.
  There is a great deal of Dvorak chamber music - 14 string quartets and three quintets, as well as 10 trios, quartets and quintets with piano - and only a fraction of it is heard regularly in recitals.
  This quartet is musically closer to the quartets of fellow Theresienstadt composers Ullmann and Schulhoff.
  Ian has composed over sixty pieces including concertos for organ, cello, alto saxophone, violin, marimba and piano, orchestral pieces, six chamber quartets, three piano trios, and many other chamber and vocal works.
  Musical accompaniment is provided by a piano quartet with additional percussion.
  He counts work on Shostakovich's quartets with Rostropovich as among the high points of his musical life.
  In both quartets, the subtle shifts in composition and coloration occur within a repeating, reductivist composition of standardized top and bottom horizontal stripes bracketing square fields of identical size.
  The century was nearing its end and Székely had never heard his quartet performed in concert.
  Not only can a listener trace the progress of Bartók's musical style over the course of the six quartets, but you get a chance to hear some of the best music the 20th century had to offer.
  Some of his chamber works are the eight string quartets, two piano trios, two piano quintets, a piano quartet and sonatas for violin and cello.
  It would be going a little far, however, to claim that the intrinsic musical merit of Dvorak's early quartets is as interesting or as endlessly refreshing as that of Beethoven's opus 18 works.
2. 1.2 A set of four people or things.
  四人组；四件套
  a quartet of comfortable armchairs
  Example sentencesExamples
  Astronomers using telescopes on Mauna Kea have found an extremely rare quartet of stars that orbit each other within a region smaller than Jupiter's orbit round the Sun.
  A quartet of powerhouse teams, each with a uniquely skilled star, is set for a showdown in San Antonio in the strongest Final Four ever.
  A regular ministerial telephone conference of the Quartet of international mediators for Middle East settlement took place on February 20.
  It's a good bet that at least 11 of the 12 drivers who will make NASCAR's version of the playoffs will come from this quartet of teams.
  The plate is composed of a quartet of salads around a small mound of baby greens.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the general sense ‘set of four’): from French quartette, from Italian quartetto, from quarto ‘fourth’, from Latin quartus.

词汇	quartet
释义	Definition of quartet in English: quartet (also quartette) noun kwɔːˈtɛtkwɔrˈtɛt 1A group of four people playing music or singing together. 四重奏；四重唱 Example sentencesExamples The piece's next movement, a canon at the octave, frames the first four movements together, but the quartet chose not to play it tonight. There was rhythmic propulsion and vigor in the fast sections, yet the quartet never exaggerated the music's pulse. A chamber music quartet was rehearsing for a Vivaldi recital, and it was gorgeous. Those who fought against racial segregation decried its social and cultural boundaries as inhuman nonsense: Jazz quartets and symphony orchestras were appropriate forms of expression for whoever happened to enjoy them. The quartet has been writing new songs so immensely good, their talent scares me sometimes. In their 25th year of marriage, Mom started singing with a country gospel music quartet led by a guy named Gordon. There's a jazz quartet playing mood music under the neon coloured strip lights barely audible in the hubbub of a full bar and seating area. He treasured his church family, Bible studies, Gideon involvements and singing in male quartets. Chicago quartet L' Altra make music for rainy Sundays: gentle, gauzy and not a little wistful. And my grand-uncles had a gospel quartet that would sing at church and community events. While a youth, he established an association with the Hoffman music company in Leavenworth, directed church choirs, sang with a quartette, and organized a ‘Pickaninny Band.’ Barbershop singing originated in the US at the turn of the last century, when quartets would sing in real barbers' shops. Brady Johnson has been singing in gospel quartets for many years and is a member of the Muddy River Quartet. To add to the occasion there was a jazz quartet, playing lively music and cheering people up on an otherwise murky day. He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets. Players will be judged in the following groups: Under 13, Under 16, Under 21, orchestras, ensembles, quartets, duets, sight reading and solo performances. The quartet delivered this music with no holds barred abandon. Also, those four people will be playing in a quartet in a music hall not too far from here. After the interval we heard a recorder quartet playing rediscovered music by Vaughan Williams. Each of the cafes along the edges of the square had a band, mostly quartets playing classical music or jazz or some show tunes. We've been playing for 25 years, and we played very intensively together, and then we invited people to join us, so I have luxuriated in trios and quartets and quintets. Synonyms group, band, orchestra, combo 1.1 A composition for a quartet. 四重奏曲；四重唱曲 a Beethoven quartet Example sentencesExamples For years the op.33 quartets have been singled out as ‘composed in a new and entirely special way’. Some of his chamber works are the eight string quartets, two piano trios, two piano quintets, a piano quartet and sonatas for violin and cello. In both quartets, the subtle shifts in composition and coloration occur within a repeating, reductivist composition of standardized top and bottom horizontal stripes bracketing square fields of identical size. The reason for the delayed première of the fifth quartet was because of the circumstances of its composition. There is a great deal of Dvorak chamber music - 14 string quartets and three quintets, as well as 10 trios, quartets and quintets with piano - and only a fraction of it is heard regularly in recitals. The Nielsen songs and the Langgaard quartet were recorded earlier in the month, in performance, but not in competition. The sound of the Zehetmair Quartet - refined, lean and coolly transparent - isn't obviously suited to full-blooded romantic works like the quartets Schumann composed in 1840. Ian has composed over sixty pieces including concertos for organ, cello, alto saxophone, violin, marimba and piano, orchestral pieces, six chamber quartets, three piano trios, and many other chamber and vocal works. It is not for nothing they have recorded for this same label a couple of quartets by Roberto Gerhard, an exiled Spanish composer who could be seen thoughtfully pacing the streets of Cambridge during my time there. This quartet is musically closer to the quartets of fellow Theresienstadt composers Ullmann and Schulhoff. Not only can a listener trace the progress of Bartók's musical style over the course of the six quartets, but you get a chance to hear some of the best music the 20th century had to offer. Musical accompaniment is provided by a piano quartet with additional percussion. However, it is not a complete cycle, for it was recorded (in collaboration with the composer in Moscow in the late 1960s) before Shostakovich had composed his 14th and 15th quartets. Indeed, Durey wrote his first and second quartets quite close together and followed with a third in 1927-28. His earliest extant chamber music for strings comprises the two sextets: in these the additional instruments give a full sound, which he achieved eventually in the quartets composed in middle life. The century was nearing its end and Székely had never heard his quartet performed in concert. It would be going a little far, however, to claim that the intrinsic musical merit of Dvorak's early quartets is as interesting or as endlessly refreshing as that of Beethoven's opus 18 works. He counts work on Shostakovich's quartets with Rostropovich as among the high points of his musical life. Burney recorded that his instrumental works - symphonies, concertos, octets, quartets, and trios - were as popular as his vocal music. The repertoire of piano quartets and quintets is not a huge one, so good ones should not be jettisoned. 1.2 A set of four people or things. 四人组；四件套 a quartet of comfortable armchairs Example sentencesExamples The plate is composed of a quartet of salads around a small mound of baby greens. Astronomers using telescopes on Mauna Kea have found an extremely rare quartet of stars that orbit each other within a region smaller than Jupiter's orbit round the Sun. It's a good bet that at least 11 of the 12 drivers who will make NASCAR's version of the playoffs will come from this quartet of teams. A quartet of powerhouse teams, each with a uniquely skilled star, is set for a showdown in San Antonio in the strongest Final Four ever. A regular ministerial telephone conference of the Quartet of international mediators for Middle East settlement took place on February 20. Origin Early 17th century (in the general sense 'set of four'): from French quartette, from Italian quartetto, from quarto 'fourth', from Latin quartus. Rhymes abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette Definition of quartet in US English: quartet nounkwôrˈtetkwɔrˈtɛt 1A group of four people playing music or singing together. 四重奏；四重唱 Example sentencesExamples Brady Johnson has been singing in gospel quartets for many years and is a member of the Muddy River Quartet. The quartet delivered this music with no holds barred abandon. And my grand-uncles had a gospel quartet that would sing at church and community events. He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets. Players will be judged in the following groups: Under 13, Under 16, Under 21, orchestras, ensembles, quartets, duets, sight reading and solo performances. Also, those four people will be playing in a quartet in a music hall not too far from here. A chamber music quartet was rehearsing for a Vivaldi recital, and it was gorgeous. While a youth, he established an association with the Hoffman music company in Leavenworth, directed church choirs, sang with a quartette, and organized a ‘Pickaninny Band.’ Each of the cafes along the edges of the square had a band, mostly quartets playing classical music or jazz or some show tunes. In their 25th year of marriage, Mom started singing with a country gospel music quartet led by a guy named Gordon. Those who fought against racial segregation decried its social and cultural boundaries as inhuman nonsense: Jazz quartets and symphony orchestras were appropriate forms of expression for whoever happened to enjoy them. Barbershop singing originated in the US at the turn of the last century, when quartets would sing in real barbers' shops. After the interval we heard a recorder quartet playing rediscovered music by Vaughan Williams. The piece's next movement, a canon at the octave, frames the first four movements together, but the quartet chose not to play it tonight. The quartet has been writing new songs so immensely good, their talent scares me sometimes. Chicago quartet L' Altra make music for rainy Sundays: gentle, gauzy and not a little wistful. We've been playing for 25 years, and we played very intensively together, and then we invited people to join us, so I have luxuriated in trios and quartets and quintets. He treasured his church family, Bible studies, Gideon involvements and singing in male quartets. To add to the occasion there was a jazz quartet, playing lively music and cheering people up on an otherwise murky day. There's a jazz quartet playing mood music under the neon coloured strip lights barely audible in the hubbub of a full bar and seating area. There was rhythmic propulsion and vigor in the fast sections, yet the quartet never exaggerated the music's pulse. Synonyms group, band, orchestra, combo 1.1 A composition for a quartet. 四重奏曲；四重唱曲 a Beethoven quartet Example sentencesExamples However, it is not a complete cycle, for it was recorded (in collaboration with the composer in Moscow in the late 1960s) before Shostakovich had composed his 14th and 15th quartets. The reason for the delayed première of the fifth quartet was because of the circumstances of its composition. Burney recorded that his instrumental works - symphonies, concertos, octets, quartets, and trios - were as popular as his vocal music. It is not for nothing they have recorded for this same label a couple of quartets by Roberto Gerhard, an exiled Spanish composer who could be seen thoughtfully pacing the streets of Cambridge during my time there. Indeed, Durey wrote his first and second quartets quite close together and followed with a third in 1927-28. The repertoire of piano quartets and quintets is not a huge one, so good ones should not be jettisoned. For years the op.33 quartets have been singled out as ‘composed in a new and entirely special way’. The sound of the Zehetmair Quartet - refined, lean and coolly transparent - isn't obviously suited to full-blooded romantic works like the quartets Schumann composed in 1840. His earliest extant chamber music for strings comprises the two sextets: in these the additional instruments give a full sound, which he achieved eventually in the quartets composed in middle life. The Nielsen songs and the Langgaard quartet were recorded earlier in the month, in performance, but not in competition. There is a great deal of Dvorak chamber music - 14 string quartets and three quintets, as well as 10 trios, quartets and quintets with piano - and only a fraction of it is heard regularly in recitals. This quartet is musically closer to the quartets of fellow Theresienstadt composers Ullmann and Schulhoff. Ian has composed over sixty pieces including concertos for organ, cello, alto saxophone, violin, marimba and piano, orchestral pieces, six chamber quartets, three piano trios, and many other chamber and vocal works. Musical accompaniment is provided by a piano quartet with additional percussion. He counts work on Shostakovich's quartets with Rostropovich as among the high points of his musical life. In both quartets, the subtle shifts in composition and coloration occur within a repeating, reductivist composition of standardized top and bottom horizontal stripes bracketing square fields of identical size. The century was nearing its end and Székely had never heard his quartet performed in concert. Not only can a listener trace the progress of Bartók's musical style over the course of the six quartets, but you get a chance to hear some of the best music the 20th century had to offer. Some of his chamber works are the eight string quartets, two piano trios, two piano quintets, a piano quartet and sonatas for violin and cello. It would be going a little far, however, to claim that the intrinsic musical merit of Dvorak's early quartets is as interesting or as endlessly refreshing as that of Beethoven's opus 18 works. 1.2 A set of four people or things. 四人组；四件套 a quartet of comfortable armchairs Example sentencesExamples Astronomers using telescopes on Mauna Kea have found an extremely rare quartet of stars that orbit each other within a region smaller than Jupiter's orbit round the Sun. A quartet of powerhouse teams, each with a uniquely skilled star, is set for a showdown in San Antonio in the strongest Final Four ever. A regular ministerial telephone conference of the Quartet of international mediators for Middle East settlement took place on February 20. It's a good bet that at least 11 of the 12 drivers who will make NASCAR's version of the playoffs will come from this quartet of teams. The plate is composed of a quartet of salads around a small mound of baby greens. Origin Early 17th century (in the general sense ‘set of four’): from French quartette, from Italian quartetto, from quarto ‘fourth’, from Latin quartus.
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