cento (0 synonym found)

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Definition of cento:

°A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.
"2007: Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes. -- William Poole, 'Out of his Furrow', London Review of Books 29:3, p. 16"

Definition of cento:

°A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.
"2007: Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes. -- William Poole, 'Out of his Furrow', London Review of Books 29:3, p. 16"

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