Definition of Sestines

1. sestine [n] - See also: sestine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sestines

sestertia
sestertii
sestertium
sestertius
sestets
sestett
sestette
sestettes
sestetto
sestettos
sestetts
sestina
sestinas
sestines (current term)
seston
sestons
sestrin
sestrins
set
set(p)
set-apart
set-aside
set-aside(p)
set-back
set-builder notation
set-off
set-stitched
set-theoretic

Literary usage of Sestines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Works of Dante Allighieri: Being an Introduction to the Study by John F. Hogan (1899)
"Of the odes, sestines, ballads and sonnets profusely attributed to the poet, ... Fraticelli considers twenty odes, three sestines, ten ballads and ..."

2. Sir Philip Sidney by John Addington Symonds (1886)
"Thus we find imbedded in the Arcadia terza rima and ottava rima, sestines and madrigals, a canzone in which the end of each line rhymes with a syllable in ..."

3. Sir Philip Sidney by John Addington Symonds (1895)
"Thus we find imbedded in the Arcadia, terza rima and ottava rima, sestines and madrigals, a canzone in which the end of each line rhymes with a syllable in ..."

4. Sir Philip Sidney by John Addington Symonds (1886)
"Thus we find imbedded in the Arcadia terza rima and ottava rima, sestines and madrigals, a canzone in which the end of each line rhymes with a syllable in ..."

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