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Definition

a group of parts considered as a whole

sometimes used in these specialized senses:

a group of actors, musicians, singers, or dancers performing together where none stands above the others (or describing a performance by them)
a coordinated outfit (set of clothing worn together)

Sometimes seen in the expression, tout ensemble which references the total effect of the group of parts.

a string ensemble
her air, her manner, her tout ensemble, is so indescribably improved
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
yet the ensemble not positively ugly;
Charlotte Bronte -- The Professor
Middle-School Chamber Music Ensemble
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

ensemble = performance by a group of musicians

This ensemble made me look like a schoolgirl, or a Salvation Army canvasser.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin

ensemble = outfit

When Adam showed up in a sharkskin suit and Creepers (an ensemble that wholly impressed Dad), I realized that this really was a date.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

ensemble = coordinated clothing considered together as an outfit

No orchestra? No chamber-music ensemble? String quartet?
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

ensemble = musicians performing together and considered as a group

Her all-white ensemble, enhanced by fox furs from Canada's Arctic, was set off by a splash of turquoise in her hat.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin

ensemble = outfit

I'd seen pictures of such ensembles, but where?
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin

ensembles = outfits

She had on a green ensemble — not a pastel green but a vibrant green, almost flagrant.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin

ensemble = outfit

"Only fair," I said, pointing to his Mozart ensemble.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

ensemble = coordinated clothing considered together as an outfit

Young Mrs. Griffen, as lovely as ever and one of last season's most important brides, was wearing a smart ensemble of sky-blue silk with a chapeau of Nile green, and was receiving congratulations on the arrival of a daughter, Aimee Adelia.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin

ensemble = outfit

Gradually Chappu Thamburan acquired a new ensemble.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
She left him, in his modified Cuban ensemble, watching the floor, waiting for his broads to come back.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
In this store, he'd exchanged his basic black ensemble for a slightly different basic black ensemble.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
The ensemble he fears looks silly on himself would have looked dignified, elegant, befitting his father in a way he knows it does not him.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
Now, looking at the whole ensemble, Jessica was surprised how little she looked like herself.
Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
The whole ensemble gave an impression of careless indifference.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
But suddenly a discordant ensemble of sirens intruded upon the general din of the Iranian street scene.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

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