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quatrain

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French quatrain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kw?t.?e?n/

Noun

quatrain (plural quatrains)

  1. A poem in four lines.
  2. A stanza of four lines.
    Example:
    Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
    Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
    And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
    The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.

Synonyms

  • (four-line stanza): tetrastich

Translations

See also

  • couplet
  • tercet
  • terzain
  • cinquain
  • sestet
  • septet
  • octave

French

Etymology

From quatre (four) +? -ain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.t???/

Noun

quatrain m (plural quatrains)

  1. quatrain (stanza of four lines)

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sestet

English

Etymology

Italian sestetto, from sesto (sixth), Latin sextus, from sex (six).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?t

Noun

sestet (plural sestets)

  1. (music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
  2. (poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.

See also

  • couplet
  • tercet
  • quatrain
  • cinquain
  • septet
  • octave

Anagrams

  • teests, testes, tsetse

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English sextet.

Noun

sestet m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. sextet

Synonyms

  • shey

Mutation

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