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sextain rare.|ˈsɛksteɪn|
Also 7 sestain.
[? Alteration of obs. F. sestine, after quatrain, sixain.]
= sestina.
1639Drummond of Hawthornden Conv. w. B. Jonson Wks. (1711) 226 Sextains, madrigals, and songs, echoes and equivoques. 1658Phillips, Sestain, a stanza consisting of six verses. 1880Macm. Mag. XLIII. 49/1 Dante..has paid him the practical compliment of imitating one of his favourite metres, viz. the sestina, or sextain. |