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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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6. 6
   six performers or singers who perform together wordnet
7. 7
   the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one wordnet

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6bookburdencantocaptain hickschorus

Etymology

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

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