barbershop quartet

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   an unaccompanied quartet of (usually male) voices singing sentimental songs in four-part harmony

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Questions about barbershop quartet

What does barbershop quartet mean?

barbershop quartet means "an unaccompanied quartet of (usually male) voices singing sentimental songs in four-part harmony".

Is barbershop quartet a common word?

barbershop quartet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.