Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stanza of six verses.
- noun In the middle ages, an order of battle.
- noun The half of the douzain. See
douzain , 2.
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Examples
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It manages a rather difficult metre (the sixain rhymed _ababcc_ and ending with an Alexandrine) without too much of the monotony which is its special danger.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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Ah, what a sixain! how full of the gallant and the tendre? "
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Ah, what a sixain! how full of the gallant and the tendre? "
Cinq Mars — Complete Alfred de Vigny 1830
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