ensemble vs sestet

ensemble

noun
  • A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists. 

  • A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole. 

  • A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses. 

  • A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit. 

  • A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company. 

  • A probability distribution for the state of the system. 

verb
  • To put together in a coordinated whole. 

  • To perform in a musical ensemble. 

sestet

noun
  • A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor. 

  • The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each. 

How often have the words ensemble and sestet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )