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sixain
(ˈsɪkseɪn, ‖ sizɛ̃)
Also 6 syx-, sixaine, sizeine.
[a. F. sixain (OF. sisain, sizain), f. six six.]
1. A stanza of six lines. (Cf. sextain.)
1575Gascoigne Notes of Instruction Wks. 1907 I. 472 There are Dyzaynes, & Syxaines,..commonly used by the French. Ibid. 473 Dizaynes and Sixaines [serve] for shorte Fantazies. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 79 The first proportion..of a staffe is by quadrien or foure verses... The third by sizeine or sixe verses. Ibid. 101 The Sixaine or staffe of sixe hath ten proportions. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1841Borrow Zincali iii. i. 6 Occasionally, sixains or stanzas of six lines, are to be found. 1881Saintsbury in Academy 15 Jan. 40 The tendency of a sonnet to split into a huitain and a sixain.
†2. Mil. (See quot.) Obs.—0
Merely copied from some French work, such as Furetière's Dict., and never actually used in English. Hence in later Dicts., as Harris, Kersey, James, etc.
1702Milit. Dict. (1708), Sixain, an ancient Order of Battle for six Batalions... Twelve Batalions will make two Sixains, eighteen will make three, and so on. |