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/djuˈɛt/ · noun
(music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble)..
The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...
1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […]
‘Ti-yi-yi-yime is on my side, yes it is,’ I used to yodel, duetting with Mick Jagger as I gyrated alone in my student room.
1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous.
In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part.
Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]
After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.
Use duet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Duet means (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble)..
Common synonyms include duo, couple, pair, twosome.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...
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