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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Centos

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[L.

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.

Noun.

A composition formed by verses or passages from other authors, disposed in a new order.