English Dictionary

cento

名詞

A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

日本語の意味

他の作家の文章や詩の一節を引用して組み合わせた作品、引用句の寄せ集め / 異なる文章や詩の断片を混合したもの、断片を組み合わせた散文または詩

The novel read like a cento of borrowed lines and mismatched scenes.

その小説は借りた台詞や不釣り合いな場面が寄せ集めになっているかのようだった。

意味（1）

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 so little to the pretended Reformation, which we in France have been made to believe, that there is nothing more heavenly wide.

centos （ plural ）

centones （ plural ）