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Sestet

//sɛsˈtɛt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
  2. 2
    a rhythmic group of six lines of verse wordnet
  3. 3
    The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
  4. 4
    a musical composition written for six performers wordnet
  5. 5
    a set of six similar things considered as a unit wordnet
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  1. 6
    six performers or singers who perform together wordnet
  2. 7
    the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one wordnet

Etymology

From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).

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