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= sestine, n., sestina, n. Also attributive.
In early use: = sestina, n. Later also more generally: any stanza or poem consisting of six lines.
A poem of six six-line stanzas (with an envoy) in which the line-endings of the first stanza are repeated, but in different order, in the other five.