A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
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...
To perform a duet.
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.
A surname.
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).
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To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous.
To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]