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Mento vs Cento - What's the difference?

mento | cento |

As nouns the difference between mento and cento

is that mento is chin while cento is a hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.

mento

English

(wikipedia mento)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices.
  • An individual mento song.

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    cento

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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 124
    • And 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 16
    • Paradise Lost'', as Teskey observes, is a ''cento , a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes.

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