sixte
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sixte
1880–85; < French < Latin sextus sixth
Example Sentences
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Page 16.—"The sixte petition, to change the sauage name of Kicowtan," was granted.
From Colonial Records of Virginia by Various
The sixte is to do them also with al mekenesse bothe in spyryte and gesture.
From A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men by Thomas Betson
For a moment his point seemed to La Tour d'Azyr to be everywhere at once, and then from a low engagement in sixte, Andre-Louis stretched forward with swift and vigorous ease to lunge in tierce.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Whereunto are now newly added a sixte hundred of Epigrams by the sayde Iohn Heywood.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by W. W. Greg
Againe, in the sixte leafe and seconde page; They shewed unto us by signes that they had in the lande golde and silver and copper, whereof wee have broughte some home.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
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