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cento

/sen-toh/US // ˈsɛn toʊ //UK // (ˈsɛntəʊ) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cen·tos.

    • : a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
    • : anything composed of incongruous parts; conglomeration.
    • : Obsolete. a patchwork.

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Examples

  • This, then, the reader must always keep in mind when he is examining for himself any examples of cinque-cento work.

  • By the best sculptors it is always used with this symbolic meaning, by the cinque cento sculptors as an ornament merely.

  • Various insects, like everything else in the world, occur in cinque cento work; grasshoppers most frequently.

  • I must observe here, that the "Lament of Tasso" is, in fact, a cento taken from Tasso's minor poems.

  • Not far from the before-mentioned building we come upon the “Cento Camarelle,” a prison consisting of a multitude of small cells.