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A musical composition for five performers
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quintet
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A quintet is a group or formation of five members, particularly musicians Quintet may also refer to: Quintet (company) , a Japanese video game developer Honda Quintet , a Honda Civic derived 5-door hatchback Quintet (film) , a 1979 film directed by Robert ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context music English) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians) 2 (context music English) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1811, "composition for five voices," from Italian quintetto , diminutive of quinto "fifth," from Latin quintus "the fifth," related to quinque "five" (see quinque- ). Meaning "set of five singers or players" is from 1882.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quintet \Quin*tet"\, Quintette \Quin*tette"\, n. [It. quintetto, dim. of quinto the fifth, a fifth part, from L. quintus the fifth: cf. F. quintette. See Quint .] (Mus.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing ...
Usage examples of quintet.
We sat beneath a spreading oak, huddled together and hunched over like a quintet of pathetic apes while the rain sluiced over us and chilled us to the bone.
Joss Hayes felt heat creeping up the back of his collar as he exited the command center, his quintet of MACO officers following close behind him for the brief turbolift ride down to the armory on F deck.
The harried quintet lined up in single file before the airlock, with Archer at the forefront, followed by Hayes, Kemper, and Money.
Even under the best of circumstances the quintet would have been difficult.
The pupillary zoom of the goggles refocused on a quintet of armed guards standing abreast.
Michael ride his own horse, the burro trailing mournfully behind the rig, while he perched near the rear, eyes never leaving the quintet of killers.
The actress stared out at the quintet moving their mouths like well-dressed men-fish in an aquarium.
It rose into the air on a quintet of delicate legs on which it had been squatting.
All in all, it constituted a much safer refuge than most of the barns, silos, junkyards, burnt-out warehouses, pigsties, toolsheds, cemeteries, abandoned cars, freeway ramps, groves, thickets, culverts, and swamps where the quintet had rested days during its eighteen-month march from the Far West to the Atlantic.
The sight of a quintet of shaggy-haired boys setting up mammoth speakers on the stage in preparation to assault our sensibilities was more than enough to send us away.
However unappealing or pathetically ridiculous Dostoevsky makes them out to be, the members of the quintet do not believe in systematic amorality and universal destruction as panaceas for the ills of the social order.
As Danlo would learn, Bardo had chosen such an illustrious quintet to honour the petitioners.
Why should any man be so gifted not only with so much pleasurable history but also with a gift of gab that could mesmerize a quintet of bums around a fire under a bridge?
Ayatollah Jebel Shammar, seated in the middle of the quintet, glowered at them from under bushy eyebrows and drummed his fingers impatiently on the tabletop.
Jebel Shammar, seated in the middle of the quintet, glowered at them from under bushy eyebrows and drummed his fingers impatiently on the tabletop.