sestet
Meanings
noun
- A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
- The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
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Etymology
From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).
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