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sex⋅tet

  [seks-tet]
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–noun
1. any group or set of six.
2. Also, sestet. Music.
a. a company of six singers or players.
b. a musical composition for six voices or instruments.
Also, sex⋅tette.

Origin:
1835–45; half-Latinized var. of sestet; see sex-
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sex·tet   (sěk-stět')   
n.  

  1. Music

    1. A composition for six voices or six instruments.

    2. A group of six singers or six instrumentalists.

  2. A group of six.


[Alteration of sestet.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

sextet 
1841, altered (by influence of Ger. Sextett) from sestet (1801), from It. sestetto, dim. of sesto "sixth," from L. sextus (see Sextus).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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