Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sextet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A sestet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
sestet .
Etymologies
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Italian
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Examples
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I was struck with Lord Byron's eyes at the time when he was listening to a sestetto in Mayer's opera of
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836
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Je fus frappé des yeux de Lord Byron au moment où il écoutait un sestetto d'un opéra de
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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