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And so, I wanted to do what I could to discourage people from doing that and that's where the centos come in.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2019

The Empress Eudoxia wrote the life of Jesus Christ, in centos taken from Homer; Proba Falconia from Virgil.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

Some are made up of stanzas from several different predecessors, others are almost centos of stock phrases.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

It is humiliating to contrast the reception of these empty echoes of inspiration, these agreeable centos, with that of such genuine, although faulty poems, as Keat's "Endymion," Shelley's "Queen Mab," and Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads."

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George

He was no mere lawyer: no stringer of professional centos.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various