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sextet

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sextet /seksˈtet/ (also sextette)

▶noun

1 a group of six people playing music or singing together.
■ a composition for such a group.

2 a set of six people or things.

– origin C19: alt. of sestet, suggested by L. sex ‘six’.

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