Quartette
[kwɔ:'tet]
Definition
(n.) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
(n.) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.
(n.) A stanza of four lines.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a quartette, and you are playing or singing, denotes favorable affairs, jolly companions, and good times. To see or hear a quartette, foretells that you will aspire to something beyond you.
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Examples
- No, not even when the sparkling host proposed that the quartette should take an appropriately sparkling glass of wine. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The third contented herself with wondering 'what ladies was made of'; and the fourth took the first in a quartette of 'Shameful! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Jingle assented, and the quartette walked into an empty apartment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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