1) Anchovy brand 2) Castle in Italy 3) Central Treaty group 4) Central treaty organization 5) Conglomeration 6) Dieci squared 7) Due times cinquanta 8) Genre of poetry 9) Italian 100 10) Literary composition 11) Literary hodgepodge 12) Literary or musical patchwork 13) Literary patchwork 14) Mideast cold war organisation
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Cento is a city and comune in the province of Ferrara, part of the region Emilia-Romagna (northern Italy). In Italian `cento` means 100. ==History== The name Cento is a reference to the centuriation of the Po Valley. Cento`s growth from its origin as a little fishing village in the marshes to an established farming town took place in the first ......
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[poetry] A cento is a poetical work wholly composed of verses or passages taken from other authors; only disposed in a new form or order. == Etymology== The term comes from the Latin cento, a cloak made of patches; and that from the Greek κέντρων (gen. κέντρωνος). The Roman soldiers used these centones, or old stuffs patched...
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patchwork composition; collection of short quotations
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• (n.) A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.
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town, Emilia-Romagna regione, north-central Italy, on the Reno River, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Bologna. A chapel was built in the church of ...
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Abbreviation for
Central Treaty Organization. ...
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Literary work consisting of passages from other writings. Composition of centos was a popular literary exercise in Roman times; in particular, Virgil's
Aeneid formed the basis of several centos,...
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Cen'to noun ;
plural Centos . [ Latin
cento a garment of several pieces sewed together, patchwork, a poem made up of various verses of another poem.] A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.
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A patchwork poem composed of quotations from other authors. A famous example is Cento Nuptialus by Decimus Magnus Ausonius.
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acronym: Central Treaty Organization
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a piece of writing, esp. a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors. · anything composed of incongruous parts; conglomeration. · a patchwork.
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