noun. A literary work pieced together from the works of several authors.

noun. A patchwork.

noun. Hence In music and literature, a composition made up of selections from the works of various authors or composers; a pasticcio; a medley.

noun. A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

noun. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.

"As Mary Carruthers observes, such allegorical games were made possible by a common figural language: A cento is a playful poem that is made up of a pastiche of half-lines and phrases from a canonical poet; it cannot succeed except for an audience who know the original poet as intimately as does the composer of the cento."

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