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sextet

[seks-tet]

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noun

any group or set of six.

Also, sestet. Music.

a company of six singers or players.

a musical composition for six voices or instruments.

Also, sex·tette.

Origin:
1835–45; half-Latinized variant of sestet; see sex-

Can be confused: sextant, sextet, sexton.

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sextet or sextette (sɛksˈtɛt)

—n
1.	music a group of six singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group
2.	a group of six people or things

[C19: variant of sestet, with Latinization of ses-]

sextette or sextette

—n

[C19: variant of sestet, with Latinization of ses-]

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sextet

1841, altered (by influence of Ger. Sextett) from sestet (1801), from It. sestetto, dim. of sesto "sixth," from L. sextus (see Sextus).

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