Cento [noun]

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.

He returned to his native town, Cento, in 1623, and there founded an academy which was much frequented by young painters.

The guardian of the Cento Camerelle, a big lazzarone, became inordinately abusive.

All we perform is no other than a cento, as a man may say, of several pieces, and we would acquire honour by a false title.

We need not be reminded that these stanzas are almost a cento from Virgil, Hesiod, and Ovid.

Going about to melt plate in somo, we found it would stand us in about 23 per cento losse in Japon plate bars.