sextet
noun
any group or set of six.
sextette
-
a variation of
sextet.
Example Sentences
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Laurie was obliged to mount the platform and explain that Miss Browning would not respond to an encore, before quiet was again restored and the sextette made its appearance.
From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Josephine Chase
Ronconi did something with a phrase in the sextette of Lucia that I have gone to hear many and many a night.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
It reminded me rather of the sextette from "Lucia de Lammermoor" when the artists all seem to be trying to outdo each other and still harmony is the result.
From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
Busby, at the piano, flung out the chords of the sextette that had made a mediocre opera famous.
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
The parting of the ways so near, the sextette of girls who had emerged from their freshman year, a devoted band, clung fondly to one another.
From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Josephine Chase
