quattrocento

quat·tro·cen·to  (kwtr-chnt)

n.

The 15th-century period of Italian art and literature.

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[Italian, short for (mil) quattrocento, one thousand four hundred : quattro, four (from Latin quattuor; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots) + cento, hundred (from Latin centum; see dek in Indo-European roots).]

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quattrocento [kwat-roe-chen-toe]

Noun

the 15th century, esp. in reference to Renaissance Italian art [Italian: four hundred (short for fourteen hundred)]

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quattrocento - the 15th century in Italian art and literature century - a period of 100 years Renaissance, Renascence - the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries