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- noun Plural form of
nonette .
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Examples
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He desired such pieces as could be produced in private circles, and would therefore prefer quartettes and quintettes for stringed instruments, and sextettes, octettes and nonettes for stringed and wind instruments.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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You three, Grace, Rose and Eeny, have been living here like nonettes long enough.
Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel May Agnes Fleming 1860
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