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quadrivirate
quadrivirate n. 
/kwəˈdrɪvᵻrət/,
Brit. /kwɒˈdrɪvᵻrət/
, /kwɒˈdrɪvᵻrət//kwəˈdrɪvᵻrət/U.S. /kwɑˈdrɪvərət/
= quadrumvirate n./kwɑˈdrɪvərət/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
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xvii. 258 This bloodlesse victory, over a Quadrivirate of Mummers.
1928 G. E. Woodberry Let. 21 Feb. (1933) 252 We must prepare ourselves for the time soon when all our biographies will be of ‘business men’—the Hoover-Mellon-Ford-Rockefeller quadrivirate.
1997 Atlanta Jrnl. & Const. (Nexis) 14 Sept. 10 l The nation's ruling quadrivirate of Clinton, Gore, Lott and Gingrich all come from the South.
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