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
He became contemplatively interested in the trio, although he knew the ways of that wicked world far too well to suppose for an instant that he would be allowed to make a quartette of it.
From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson
You used to live in an artistic circle, that you could charm with a Beethoven quartette.
From Woman and Artist by O'Rell, Max
