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quintet

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quintet/kwɪnˈtet/

▶noun

1 a group of five people playing music or singing together.
■ a composition for a quintet.

2 a set of five people or things.

– origin C18: from Fr. quintette or Ital. quintetto, from quinto ‘fifth’, from L. quintus.

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