pastiche

[ pa-steesh, pah- ]

/ pæˈstiʃ, pɑ- /

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noun

a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.

an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge.

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Origin of pastiche

1700–10; <French <Italian pasticciopasticcio

Words nearby pastiche

pasteurization, pasteurize, pasteurizer, Pasteur, Louis, pasticcio, pastiche, pasticheur, pasticheuse, pastiglia, pastille, pastime

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How to use pastiche in a sentence

Best of all are original songs that range from the devilishly catchy “Famous 5eva” to note-perfect Simon & Garfunkel pastiche “New York Lonely Boy.”
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He correctly identified it as “a Victorian pastiche” worth just a few thousand dollars.
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Each new chapter pushes the pastiche forward roughly a decade in television history, and you feel that momentum.
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He tentatively suggested that the text is a pastiche compiled by a modern forger with an elementary grasp of Coptic.
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And then he sort of collapsed it into a rise of fascism, and SS pastiche groups.
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Instead, we have irony, allusion, meta commentary, fragmentation, parody, and pastiche.
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I do not seek out the redundant, the pastiche, or the formulaic.
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The clothes, however, were a chaotic pastiche of fur and glitter assembled in inelegant ways.
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If it bear the distinct marks of being a Neo-platonic pastiche, we may reject it without hesitation.
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To restore it is to annihilate the work of centuries, to recompose an ordinary pastiche with no clat.
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They have rarely succeeded in getting very close to them without mere archaic pastiche.
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It is an interesting study to divide the pastiche from the real.
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This poem is written as a folk-story, in the style of the Byliny, and it in no way resembles a pastiche.
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British Dictionary definitions for pastiche

pastiche

pasticcio (pæˈstɪtʃəʊ)

/ (pæˈstiːʃ) /

noun

a work of art that mixes styles, materials, etc

a work of art that imitates the style of another artist or period

Word Origin for pastiche

C19: French pastiche, Italian pasticcio, literally: piecrust (hence, something blended), from Late Latin pasta paste 1

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pastiche

Origin of pastiche

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British Dictionary definitions for pastiche

pasticcio (pæˈstɪtʃəʊ)

Word Origin for pastiche