Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, a quartet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.) A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.

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Examples

  • Tentacula supra os quatuor: Tentacles above mouth, four.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Tentacula supra os quatuor: Tentacles above mouth, four.

    Linnaeus's folly AYDIN 2009

  • C.J. Solinus (Plinii Simia) says, “Indica maria balænas habent ultra spatia quatuor jugerum.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Et volumus quod dicti religiosi teneantur annuatim in perpetuum pro predicta donacione nostra ad perpetuam nostri memoriam vestire quindecim pauperes ad festum Sancti Martini in hieme et eosdem cibare eodem die liberando eorum cuilibet quatuor ulnas panni grossi et lati vel sex ulnas panni stricti et eorum cuilibet unum novum par sotularium de ordine suo.

    The Monastery 2008

  • De sacrificiis: nuculam pro bona valetudine, boves quatuor pro divitiis, centum tauros pro sospite a Trojae reditu,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Matronae flent duobus oculis, moniales quatuor, virgines uno, meretrices nullo.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hae quatuor passiones sunt tanquam rotae in curru, quibus vehimur hoc mundo.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Damnatam se putavit, et quatuor menses Gehennae poenam sentire.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • P. Monavius se stolidum curasse jactat hoc epoto tribus aut quatuor vicibus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Uti ille apud Skenkium, qui post potionem, uxorem et quatuor ancillas proximo cubiculo cubantes, compressit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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  • Another tough rhymer.

    December 14, 2018

  • You’d hardly believe it, just what furor

    Was stirred by that tuneless loud quatuor!

    Hell’s recesses shook

    In every dark nook;

    The doors blew off and bats flew o’er.

    December 14, 2018

  • Great ending!

    December 14, 2018