Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SEX'TU-PLE
SEX'TU-PLE, a. [Low L. sextuplus; sex, six, and duplus, double.]
- Sixfold; six times as much. – Brown.
- In music, denoting a mixed sort of triple, beaten in double time, or a measure of two times composed of six equal notes, three for each time. – Busby. Encyc.
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