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Sestet

noun
1.
The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.  Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI.
2.
Six performers or singers who perform together.  Synonyms: sextet, sextette.
3.
A set of six similar things considered as a unit.  Synonyms: sextet, sextette.
4.
A musical composition written for six performers.  Synonyms: sextet, sextette.
5.
A rhythmic group of six lines of verse.





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"Sestet" Quotes from Famous Books



... clamorous daws that fall asleep in the ancient belfry to the sound of the drowsy chimes. Rossetti, in so many ways a continuator of Keats' artistry, devoted to Chatterton the first of his sonnet-group, "Five English Poets,"[29] of which the sestet runs thus: ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers


Words linked to "Sestet" :   musical composition, composition, musical organisation, vi, stanza, sextuplet, figure, musical organization, musical group, set, piece, opus, digit, six, piece of music


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