Cin'que-cen'to, n.

(chĭnk'/we-chĕn'/to), n. [It., five hundred, abbreviated for fifteen hundred, so called because this art arose after the year 1500.] (Arch.) A style of decorative art which sprang up in Italy about 1550, and aimed to revive and elaborate the richest and most conspicuous characteristics of Greek and Roman art. Fairholt.