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- noun Plural form of
octette .
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Examples
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Fiftines andbut fortines by novanas andor vantads by octettes ayand decadendecads by a lunary with last a lone.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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First his friends rallied round him; and then the fellows that his friends knew by sight; and then a few of his enemies buried the hatchet; and finally he was buying souvenirs for so many Neapolitan fisher maidens and butterfly octettes that the head waiters were 'phoning all over town for
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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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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