set|te|cen|to

set|te|cen|to
set|te|cen|to «SEHT tay CHEHN toh», noun.
the 1700's (used especially in connection with a period of Italian art and literature).
[< Italian settecento seven hundred, short for millesettecento one thousand and seven hundred]

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