Usually means: Six-line stanza in poetry.
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  1. sextain: Merriam-Webster
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  6. Sextain, sextain: Dictionary.com
  7. Sextain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. sextain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Sextain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. sextain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. sextain: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sextain: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (poetry) A stanza of six lines; a sestine or sestina.

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sextine, sestine, sestet, sestina, sestette, sextetto, sestett, sextet, sextette, sextett, more...

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