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Webster 1913 Edition
Cinquecento
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Cinˊque-cen′to
,Noun.
& Adj.
[It., five hundred, abbrev. for fifteen hundred. The
Cinquecento
style was so called because it arose after the year 1500.] The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature;
as, the sculpture of the
. Cinquecento
; Cinquecento
style