Definitions for sestinas

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sestinas ses·ti·na

Spelling: [se-stee-nuh]

IPA: /sɛˈsti nə/

Sestinas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in sestinas (aeinssst).

Definitions for sestinas

noun

1. a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.

Origin of sestinas

1580-90; Italian, equivalent to sest(o) (Latin sextus sixth) + -ina -ine²

Examples for sestinas

The sestina is composed of six 6-line stanzas and a final 3-line stanza.

Naught else have I afforded you, madame, save very anciently a sestina.

The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians.

The common form of the sestina has six stanzas of six lines each, with a tercet at the end.

From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima.

That it was used and admired by Dante and Petrarch, alone gives the sestina a royal precedence over all of the other forms.