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From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

noun centos · centones

A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems. But, Sʳ, I will no longer tire your patience wᵗʰ these monsters (the subject of every contemptuous pamphlet) then with the madness of the Anabaptists, Quakers, Fift Monarchy-men, and a cento of unheard of heresies besides, which, at present, deform the once renowned Church of England, and approach s

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@misc{cento_2026,
  title = {cento},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cento},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}