sestetn.
/sɛsˈtɛt/, U.S. /sɛsˈtɛt/ 1. Music. A composition for six voices or instruments.
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1811 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 3) Sestetto or Sestett, (Ital.), a composition, vocal or instrumental, consisting of six distinct parts.
1874 F. A. G. Ouseley Musical Form 52 Thus are constructed..sestetts, septetts, and ottetts.
1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 475/2 Instrumental sestets are of two kinds; those for strings only..and those for various combinations of strings, wind and pianoforte.
2. Prosody. The last six lines of a sonnet. Cf. octave v., octet n.
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a1859 L. Hunt Bk. Sonn. (1867) I. 10 The Minor division [of the Italian sonnet consists] of six lines, called the Sestette.
1881 Athenæum 8 Oct. 459/3 The regular sonnet of octave and sestet.
1882 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 325 This rhythmic variation of the order in the sestet rhymes.
1896 E. Gosse Crit. Kit-kats 7 No fault can be found with the structure of her [Mrs. Browning's] octetts and sestetts.
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