- Music sextet
- the final six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet
- a poem or stanza of six lines
Origin of sestet
Italian sestetto, diminutive of sesto, sixth from Classical Latin sextus, sixth from sex, sixsestet
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sestet
noun
- A group of six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet.
- A poem or stanza containing six lines.
Origin of sestet
Italian sestetto from sesto sixth from Latin sextus ; see s(w)eks in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural sestets)
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