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quintet
noun
[ kwɪnˈtɛt ]
• a group of five people playing music or singing together.
• "a jazz quintet played hypnotic Chicago blues"
Origin:
late 18th century: from French quintette or Italian quintetto, from quinto ‘fifth’, from Latin quintus .