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cento

noun

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

  1. derived from cento

Definitions

  1. A hotchpotch, a mixture

    A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

    • And Captain McCabe says: "I have always regarded the letter as a sort of 'cento' of odds and ends (badly put together) from Lee's genuine letters."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cento. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA