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
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Tentacula supra os quatuor: Tentacles above mouth, four.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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Tentacula supra os quatuor: Tentacles above mouth, four.
Linnaeus's folly AYDIN 2009
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C.J. Solinus (Plinii Simia) says, “Indica maria balænas habent ultra spatia quatuor jugerum.”
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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
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De sacrificiis: nuculam pro bona valetudine, boves quatuor pro divitiis, centum tauros pro sospite a Trojae reditu,
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Matronae flent duobus oculis, moniales quatuor, virgines uno, meretrices nullo.
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Hae quatuor passiones sunt tanquam rotae in curru, quibus vehimur hoc mundo.
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Damnatam se putavit, et quatuor menses Gehennae poenam sentire.
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P. Monavius se stolidum curasse jactat hoc epoto tribus aut quatuor vicibus.
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Uti ille apud Skenkium, qui post potionem, uxorem et quatuor ancillas proximo cubiculo cubantes, compressit.
bilby commented on the word quatuor
Another tough rhymer.
December 14, 2018
qms commented on the word quatuor
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
bilby commented on the word quatuor
Great ending!
December 14, 2018