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Sextet   /sˌɛkstˈɛt/   Listen
Sextet

noun
1.
A musical composition written for six performers.  Synonyms: sestet, sextette.
2.
The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.  Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI.
3.
Six performers or singers who perform together.  Synonyms: sestet, sextette.
4.
A set of six similar things considered as a unit.  Synonyms: sestet, sextette.
5.
Six people considered as a unit.  Synonyms: sextette, sixsome.





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"Sextet" Quotes from Famous Books



... club's great room, she was surrounded for a moment by the girls she had met in the afternoon, then she heard Sally's voice repeating a cycle of names, and found herself bowing to a sextet of black and white, terribly stiff, vaguely familiar figures. The name Blaine figured somewhere, but at first she could not place him. A very confused, very juvenile moment of awkward backings and bumpings followed, and every one found himself talking to the person ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald


Words linked to "Sextet" :   piece, musical group, opus, digit, piece of music, musical organisation, set, musical organization, composition, musical composition, gathering, figure, assemblage


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