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sextain

[ sek-steyn ]

noun

Prosody.
  1. a stanza of six lines.

sextain

/ ˈɛٱɪ /

noun

  1. another word for sestina
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sextain1

1630–40; blend of two obsolete French words: sixain six-line stanza and sestine sestina
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sextain1

C17: from obsolete French sestine sestina , but also influenced by obsolete sixain stanza of six lines
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Sextain, seks′tān, n. a stanza of six lines.

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