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Word: Sextain
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 17th century; earliest use found in William Drummond (1585–1649), poet and pamphleteer. Alteration of sextine, after quatrain, quintain, etc
Definition:
In early use: = "sestina". Later also more generally: any stanza or poem consisting of six lines.
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