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View synonyms for sextet
sextet
/ sɛksˈtɛt /
noun
- 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
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sextet1
C19: variant of sestet , with Latinization of ses-
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Example Sentences
The preliminary encounter was a mortifying experience for the sextet of overconfident youth.
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I hope you will be pleased to hear I have composed a sextet for strings.
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Each central globe yields a sextet and a quartet, and the rod sets free two quartets and a peculiarly formed sextet.
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The central sphere is also figured; the cigar follows its usual course, and its companions unite into a sextet and an octet.
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I thus formed an instrumental sextet, each group of which had a strictly defined part.
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