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sextet

or sex·tette

[ seks-tet ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any group or set of six.
Also Music.
1. a company of six singers or players.
2. a musical composition for six voices or instruments.

sextet

/ sɛksˈtɛt /

music a group of six singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group
a group of six people or things

Origin of sextet¹

1835–45; half-Latinized variant of sestet; sex-

Origin of sextet¹

C19: variant of sestet , with Latinization of ses-

The preliminary encounter was a mortifying experience for the sextet of overconfident youth.

I hope you will be pleased to hear I have composed a sextet for strings.

Each central globe yields a sextet and a quartet, and the rod sets free two quartets and a peculiarly formed sextet.

The central sphere is also figured; the cigar follows its usual course, and its companions unite into a sextet and an octet.

I thus formed an instrumental sextet, each group of which had a strictly defined part.

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