quartette

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Nutrition faddist John Harvey Kellogg, whose sanatorium briefly embraced Fletcherism, tried to re-enliven mealtimes by hiring a quartette to sing “The Chewing Song,” an original Kellogg composition, while diners grimly toiled.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013

Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps of servitors, he introduces a quartette of nobles from the vicinity of the Volga.

From Time Magazine Archive

A string quartette played softly in another room�not by hymns but music which he himself had loved.

From Time Magazine Archive

But then it was intended for a quartette only, and had served without question for four estimable persons during the long, peaceful rectorship of good old Parson Montgomery, who had but recently passed away.

From For the Major A Novelette by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

You used to live in an artistic circle, that you could charm with a Beethoven quartette.

From Woman and Artist by O'Rell, Max