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n. A stanza of six verses.

n. In the middle ages, an order of battle.

n. The half of the douzain. See douzain, 2.

"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."