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"