Cinquecento

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cinquecento \Cin`que*cen"to\, n. & a. [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.


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