sixte
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sixte
1880–85; < French < Latin sextus sixth
Example Sentences
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“Contraction, Parries of,” those which do not parry in the simplest manner, but drag the adverse blade into another line, e.g. to parry a thrust in high sixte by counter of quarte.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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 Rafael Sabatini
Page 16.—"The sixte petition, to change the sauage name of Kicowtan," was granted.
From Colonial Records of Virginia by Various
In the sixte figure, is shewed howe an Armie is brought from a fower square facion, to the ordinarie forme, to faight a fielde: accordyng as afore is declared.
From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres
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
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