sextette

Variant of sextet

sextet definition

sex·tet or sextette sex·tette′ (seks tet′)

noun

  1. a group of six persons or things
  2. Music
    1. a composition for six voices or six instruments
    2. a group of six performers of such a composition, or any group of six musicians playing together

Etymology: altered by assoc. with L sex, six < sestet

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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