sixte
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sixte
1880–85; < French < Latin sextus sixth
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But even as I was making up my mind to this—we were engaged in sixte at the time—I saw a sudden chance.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael
The sixte parry is therefore followed, as a continuation of the movement, by the parry of quarte, or a counter parry.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 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 Betson, Thomas
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 Greg, W. W.
Page 16.—"The sixte petition, to change the sauage name of Kicowtan," was granted.
From Colonial Records of Virginia by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
