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Definition of Sextain

Sextain
Sextain Sex"tain, n. [L. sextus sixth, fr. sex six: cf. It. sestina.] (Pros.) A stanza of six lines; a sestine.

Meaning of Sextain from wikipedia

- sixth; Old Occitan: cledisat [klediˈzat]; also known as sestine, ****tine, ****tain) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally...
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- National Notes (Third ed.) (1936) Life's Testament (Second ed.) (1939) ****tains (1939) This Vital Flesh (1939) - Awarded the 1940 ALS Gold Medal Moreton...
- appeared Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, ****tains, Madrigals, which for several centuries was thought to commemorate Drummond's...