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quartet

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quartet /kwɔːˈtet/ (also quartette)

▶noun

1 a group of four people playing music or singing together.
■ a composition for a quartet.

2 a set of four people or things.

– origin C17: from Fr. quartette, from Ital. quartetto, from quarto ‘fourth’, from L. quartus.

'quartet' also found in these Oxford entries:

chamber music - octet - string quartet

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continuum, 'so' if the quartet are
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