quartette

See also: Quartette

English

Noun

quartette (plural quartettes)

1. Alternative spelling of quartet.
   • 1952 March, R. S. McNaught, “Joint Line Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 195:

     Another musical memory of the stationmaster was his Joint Railway Male Voice Quartette, comprising three local stationmasters and a booking clerk, whose items were very acceptable at social events. One thing that amused me was that the quartette included a Mr. Dove and a Mr. Crowe; and it was Mr. Dove, and not the latter, who took the bass parts.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwaʁ.tɛt/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Noun

quartette m (plural quartettes)

1. quartet (music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument)
2. quartet (the set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts)

Further reading

• “quartette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.