| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ses·ti·na |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s -st  n |
| NOUN: | A verse form first used by the Provençal troubadours, consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. The end words of the first stanza are repeated in varied order as end words in the other stanzas and also recur in the envoy. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian, from sesto, sixth, from Latin sextus. See s(w)eks in Appendix I.
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