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pasticcio

[ pa-stee-choh; Italian pahs-teet-chaw ]

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noun

, plural pas·tic·ci [pa-, stee, -chee, pahs-, teet, -chee].

1700–10; < Italian < Vulgar Latin pastīcium pasty, pie, derivative of Late Latin pasta; paste

Pasticcio di Maccheroni is an excellent macaroni pie, and Gnocchi di Patele are little knobs of paste boiled like macaroni.

He introduced a discordant pathological note, but the music of Richard Strauss may save his pasticcio.

In the following year he produced 'Piramo e Tisbe,' a pasticcio, which failed completely.

A more repulsive tragi-comedy than this pasticcio of Sophocles and Seneca, can scarcely be imagined.

Pasticcio signifies an imitation of the mixed style of various artists.

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