sestet

English

Etymology

Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

sestet (plural sestets)

1. (music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
2. (poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.

See also

• couplet
• tercet
• quatrain
• cinquain
• septet
• octave

Anagrams

• teests, testes, tsetse

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Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English sextet.

Noun

sestet m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. sextet

Synonyms

• shey