sestet

[ se-stet, ses-tet ]

noun
  1. Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.: Compare octave (def. 4a).

Origin of sestet

1
1795–1805; <Italian sestettosextet, equivalent to sest(o) (<Latin sextussixth) + -etto-et

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sestet

/ (sɛˈstɛt) /


noun
  1. prosody the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet

  2. prosody any six-line stanza

  1. another word for sextet (def. 1)

Origin of sestet

1
C19: from Italian sestetto, from sesto sixth, from Latin sextus, from sex six

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