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cento

noun as in macaronic verse

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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.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cento, such as: fescennine verse, hudibrastic verse, macaronicism, and macaronics.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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