quartetn.

Brit.

/kwɔːˈtɛt/, U.S.

/kwɔrˈtɛt/

Forms: 1600s–1800s quartett, 1700s– quartet, 1700s– quartette.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Perhaps also partly a borrowing from German. Etymons: Italian quartetto; German Quartett.

Etymology: < Italian quartetto (although this is first attested slightly later: see quartetto n.), with omission of the ending. In sense 2a perhaps via German Quartett (late 18th cent.).Compare French quartette composition for four voices or instruments (1869 in Littré; rare), group of four jazz musicians (1949; after the English); the usual word in French for a classical composition for four voices or instruments and for a group of four classical musicians is quatuor quatuor n.

1. A set of four lines in a sonnet.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > quatrain > other quatrains

quartet1605

englyn1612

Alcaic1630

redondilla1703

rubai1789

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 26 Many more and of great varietie of meeters..as the Italian makers, in their Stanzas, Quartetts, Tercetts, Octaves.

1775 W. Mason in T. Gray Poems II. Notes 244 Our Author varies from him only in making the rhymes in the two first Quartetts alternate.

1837–9 H. Hallam Hist. Lit. II. ii. v. §44. 208 The first lines or quartets of the sonnet excite a soft expectation, which is harmoniously filled by the tercets, or last six lines.

1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xxvii. 302 He was a poet by nature, having a muse wonderfully glib at making triplets and quartets.

1934 Hispanic Rev. 2 156 We heard enough about them in the first quartet. So far the sonnet has hardly risen above the average.

1962 R. M. Browning German Poetry 229 Read carefully the second quartet of the first sonnet.

2001 P. Goring et al. Studying Lit. 298 The Spenserian sonnet uses an interlaced rhyme scheme,..so that each quartet links with, and develops from, the next.

2. Music.

a. A composition for four voices or instruments, esp. one for four stringed instruments. Also figurative and in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > pieces for specific number of performers > [noun] > quartet

quatuor1724

quartetto1758

quartet1773

pianoforte quartet1847

piano quartet1862

1773 C. Burney Present State Music in Germany I. 313 [Hasse] added, that..his trios, quartets and concertos, for instruments, were so numerous, that he should not know many of them again, if he was either to see or hear them.

1791 S. T. Coleridge Ode to Sleep in Poet. Wks. (2001) I. 56 We snore quartettes in extacy of Nose!

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxix. 55 A quartette of ‘Shameful!’ with which the Dianas concluded.

1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 245 A single quartet for stringed instruments.

1872 R. Browning Fifine cxvi Inspect this quartett-score!

1916 Grove's Dict. Mus. V. 3/1 The term is also applied to the performers of a quartet, as well as to the composition itself.

1943 H. L. Mencken Heathen Days vii. 89 I was presently playing trios and quartettes with an outfit that devoted four hours of every week to the job.

1943 T. S. Eliot (title) Four quartets.

1965 New Statesman 21 May 802/3 I asked what the four of his Quartets were four of, and he [sc. T. S. Eliot] answered that..‘quartet’ suggested Chamber Music composed for close attention by a small audience who had a fair understanding of what they were listening to.

1985 Gourmet Oct. 40/2 The mushrooms—shiitake, oyster, cèpe, and morel—were a quartet of harmonious yet distinct tastes.

1990 Classic CD July 52/2 Haydn's early quartets, known as Quadri as they were in four parts, were played either by soloists or small bands.

b. A set of four singers or players who perform together. Frequently in the name of performing groups.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > company of musicians

consort1587

concert1688

trio1724

concert party1824

septet1831

quartet1840

sextet1858

octet1880

chamber ensemble1907

chamber group1907

camerata1967

1840 S. Lover Greek Boy 20 Quartette and Chorus.

1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xxiv. 227 Then, his voice for singing comes into play, and he and Angie and Dr. Campbell and Alice make up a quartette quite magnificent for non-professionals.

1916 Grove's Dict. Mus. V. 6/2 The only present-day instrumentalists who play upon a complete set of Stradivari's instruments are the Joachim quartet.

1963 J. Fowles Collector 250 I've been playing the Modern Jazz Quartet's records over and over again.

2006 New Yorker 3 July 10/3 When the band begins to rollick, it sounds less like a rock group than a loud quartet of monks doing a brisk plainchant.

3. A set of four people.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > group of four > persons

quadrivirate1654

quatrumvirate1684

partie carrée1693

quadrumvirate1752

quartetto1771

quartet1814

quartumvirate1840

square party1851

quattuorvirate1856

foursome1926

1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 304 We are a quartett of miserables.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. 294 The parties are arranged in messes of four, each of which quartets has its piece of beef.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xv. 291 When the quartette of gentlemen..met on the terrace.

1902 Daily Chron. 11 July 5/1 A quartette of ex-Lord Mayors of London.

1979 J. Wainwright Brainwash ii. 10 The quartet was composed of two uniformed officers and two C.I.D. men.

1994 W. Clarkson Tom Cruise (1997) vii. 95 Losin' It centred around a quartet of Californian high schoolers.

4. A set of four things; esp. a series of four novels.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > group of four

quaternionc1384

quadrivial?a1475

messa1529

quaternity1529

quaternio1601

mournival1631

quadrate1637

quaternarya1638

tetrad1653

quadruplet1795

quartetto1807

quatrain1862

quartet1882

quad1896

1882 Daily Tel. 17 May 3/7 Shaw, letting out at that bowler's next delivery, drove it to the boundary for a quartette.

1901 E. Step Shell Life vii. 108 The last of the quartette, the Lake Orb-shell.

1940 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 27 551/1 The conditions of polyspory as well as of quartets of four spores have been observed [in Zea Mays].

1959 Times 6 May 12/5 Mr. Durrell..has been working on his quartet of novels about Alexandria.

1970 Single Sideband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) vii. 198/1 A quartet of Hewlett-Packard hot-carrier diodes 5082-2350 was used for the ring modulator.

2001 Science 30 Nov. 1809/2 The team narrowed its search down to a family of RNAs called G quartets, which are shaped like cubes on a stick.

2002 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 10 Nov. xiv. 6/4 Author of numerous alternative history novels, including The Guns of the South, How Few Remain, and the Worldwar quartet.

Compounds

quartet table n. = quartetto table n. at quartetto n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > one of a nest

quartet table1809

quartetto table1812

1809 Times 5 June 1/4 (advt.) Musical Instruments... To be sold cheap, a capital upright Piano Forte, two fine-toned Violoncellos,..new invented Quartet Table and Desk.

1906 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 26 June 13/1 Fine large mahogany quartet table.

1969 Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 9 Dec. 6/4 At a quartet table overlaid with a white linen cloth, a bud vase held pink rosebuds.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quartet
释义	quartetn. Brit. /kwɔːˈtɛt/, U.S. /kwɔrˈtɛt/ Forms: 1600s–1800s quartett, 1700s– quartet, 1700s– quartette. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Perhaps also partly a borrowing from German. Etymons: Italian quartetto; German Quartett. Etymology: < Italian quartetto (although this is first attested slightly later: see quartetto n.), with omission of the ending. In sense 2a perhaps via German Quartett (late 18th cent.).Compare French quartette composition for four voices or instruments (1869 in Littré; rare), group of four jazz musicians (1949; after the English); the usual word in French for a classical composition for four voices or instruments and for a group of four classical musicians is quatuor quatuor n. 1. A set of four lines in a sonnet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > quatrain > other quatrains quartet1605 englyn1612 Alcaic1630 redondilla1703 rubai1789 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 26 Many more and of great varietie of meeters..as the Italian makers, in their Stanzas, Quartetts, Tercetts, Octaves. 1775 W. Mason in T. Gray Poems II. Notes 244 Our Author varies from him only in making the rhymes in the two first Quartetts alternate. 1837–9 H. Hallam Hist. Lit. II. ii. v. §44. 208 The first lines or quartets of the sonnet excite a soft expectation, which is harmoniously filled by the tercets, or last six lines. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xxvii. 302 He was a poet by nature, having a muse wonderfully glib at making triplets and quartets. 1934 Hispanic Rev. 2 156 We heard enough about them in the first quartet. So far the sonnet has hardly risen above the average. 1962 R. M. Browning German Poetry 229 Read carefully the second quartet of the first sonnet. 2001 P. Goring et al. Studying Lit. 298 The Spenserian sonnet uses an interlaced rhyme scheme,..so that each quartet links with, and develops from, the next. 2. Music. a. A composition for four voices or instruments, esp. one for four stringed instruments. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > pieces for specific number of performers > [noun] > quartet quatuor1724 quartetto1758 quartet1773 pianoforte quartet1847 piano quartet1862 1773 C. Burney Present State Music in Germany I. 313 [Hasse] added, that..his trios, quartets and concertos, for instruments, were so numerous, that he should not know many of them again, if he was either to see or hear them. 1791 S. T. Coleridge Ode to Sleep in Poet. Wks. (2001) I. 56 We snore quartettes in extacy of Nose! 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxix. 55 A quartette of ‘Shameful!’ with which the Dianas concluded. 1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 245 A single quartet for stringed instruments. 1872 R. Browning Fifine cxvi Inspect this quartett-score! 1916 Grove's Dict. Mus. V. 3/1 The term is also applied to the performers of a quartet, as well as to the composition itself. 1943 H. L. Mencken Heathen Days vii. 89 I was presently playing trios and quartettes with an outfit that devoted four hours of every week to the job. 1943 T. S. Eliot (title) Four quartets. 1965 New Statesman 21 May 802/3 I asked what the four of his Quartets were four of, and he [sc. T. S. Eliot] answered that..‘quartet’ suggested Chamber Music composed for close attention by a small audience who had a fair understanding of what they were listening to. 1985 Gourmet Oct. 40/2 The mushrooms—shiitake, oyster, cèpe, and morel—were a quartet of harmonious yet distinct tastes. 1990 Classic CD July 52/2 Haydn's early quartets, known as Quadri as they were in four parts, were played either by soloists or small bands. b. A set of four singers or players who perform together. Frequently in the name of performing groups. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > company of musicians consort1587 concert1688 trio1724 concert party1824 septet1831 quartet1840 sextet1858 octet1880 chamber ensemble1907 chamber group1907 camerata1967 1840 S. Lover Greek Boy 20 Quartette and Chorus. 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xxiv. 227 Then, his voice for singing comes into play, and he and Angie and Dr. Campbell and Alice make up a quartette quite magnificent for non-professionals. 1916 Grove's Dict. Mus. V. 6/2 The only present-day instrumentalists who play upon a complete set of Stradivari's instruments are the Joachim quartet. 1963 J. Fowles Collector 250 I've been playing the Modern Jazz Quartet's records over and over again. 2006 New Yorker 3 July 10/3 When the band begins to rollick, it sounds less like a rock group than a loud quartet of monks doing a brisk plainchant. 3. A set of four people. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > group of four > persons quadrivirate1654 quatrumvirate1684 partie carrée1693 quadrumvirate1752 quartetto1771 quartet1814 quartumvirate1840 square party1851 quattuorvirate1856 foursome1926 1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 304 We are a quartett of miserables. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. 294 The parties are arranged in messes of four, each of which quartets has its piece of beef. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xv. 291 When the quartette of gentlemen..met on the terrace. 1902 Daily Chron. 11 July 5/1 A quartette of ex-Lord Mayors of London. 1979 J. Wainwright Brainwash ii. 10 The quartet was composed of two uniformed officers and two C.I.D. men. 1994 W. Clarkson Tom Cruise (1997) vii. 95 Losin' It centred around a quartet of Californian high schoolers. 4. A set of four things; esp. a series of four novels. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > group of four quaternionc1384 quadrivial?a1475 messa1529 quaternity1529 quaternio1601 mournival1631 quadrate1637 quaternarya1638 tetrad1653 quadruplet1795 quartetto1807 quatrain1862 quartet1882 quad1896 1882 Daily Tel. 17 May 3/7 Shaw, letting out at that bowler's next delivery, drove it to the boundary for a quartette. 1901 E. Step Shell Life vii. 108 The last of the quartette, the Lake Orb-shell. 1940 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 27 551/1 The conditions of polyspory as well as of quartets of four spores have been observed [in Zea Mays]. 1959 Times 6 May 12/5 Mr. Durrell..has been working on his quartet of novels about Alexandria. 1970 Single Sideband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) vii. 198/1 A quartet of Hewlett-Packard hot-carrier diodes 5082-2350 was used for the ring modulator. 2001 Science 30 Nov. 1809/2 The team narrowed its search down to a family of RNAs called G quartets, which are shaped like cubes on a stick. 2002 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 10 Nov. xiv. 6/4 Author of numerous alternative history novels, including The Guns of the South, How Few Remain, and the Worldwar quartet. Compounds quartet table n. = quartetto table n. at quartetto n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > one of a nest quartet table1809 quartetto table1812 1809 Times 5 June 1/4 (advt.) Musical Instruments... To be sold cheap, a capital upright Piano Forte, two fine-toned Violoncellos,..new invented Quartet Table and Desk. 1906 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 26 June 13/1 Fine large mahogany quartet table. 1969 Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 9 Dec. 6/4 At a quartet table overlaid with a white linen cloth, a bud vase held pink rosebuds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1605
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