Cento

Origin

From Latin cento ‘patchwork garment’.

Full definition of cento

Noun

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.
• 1915 (Sep), Charles A. Graves, "The Forged Letter of General Lee", Southern Historical Society Papers, New Series 40, page 124And Captain McCabe says: "I have always regarded the letter as a sort of 'cento' of odds and ends (badly put together) from Lee's genuine letters."
• 2007, William Poole, "Out of his Furrow", London Review of Books 29(3), page 16Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes.

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• c note, c-note, Noteć