sestinen.
/sɛˈstiːn/ Prosody rare.
= sestina n.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. sig. N7v Basilius..willed [Lamon] to sing some one of their songs; which he redily performed in this doble Sestine.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Oo3v One Agelastus..framing an vniuersall complaint in that vniuersall mischiefe, vttered it in this sestine.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sestine, a Sestine, or stanzo of six verses.
1879 E. Gosse New Poems 157 Arnaut, great master of the lore of love, First wrought sestines to win his lady's heart.
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