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sestet
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn: six , 6 , VI , sixer , sise , Captain Hicks , half a dozen , sextet , sextuplet , hexad ] six performers or singers who perform together [syn: sextet , sextette ] a set of six similar things considered ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1801, from Italian sestetto , diminutive of sesto "sixth," from Latin sextus (see Sextus ).
Usage examples of sestet.
The sestet ended in a drinking-shop not far from the Souk or Socco, over glasses of warmish pastis.
The octave typically introduces the theme or problem, with the sestet providing the resolution.
She could find no turn for the sestet to take, no epigram, no change of mood.
The octave for the public event, the sestet for the unchanging Marius or Mario.
It has fourteen lines that divide into an octave of a rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA and a sestet CDC DCD, really two tercets.
The sestet which followed, to complete the sonnet, was less derivative and therefore less successful, Dame Beatrice thought.