Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, same as
sestina .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
sextain .
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- noun poetry A
sextain .
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It consists of sonnets (and these are the more numerous) of canzoni, of sestine, of ballate, and of madrigals.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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