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sestet

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sestet /sɛsˈtɛt/

▶noun

1 Prosody the last six lines of a sonnet.

2 Music, rare a sextet.

– origin C19: from Ital. sestetto, from sesto, from L. sextus ‘a sixth’.

'sestet' also found in these Oxford entries:

Petrarchan - sestina - sextet

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