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pasticheur

American  
[pas-tee-shœr] / pas tiˈʃœr /

noun

French.

plural

pasticheurs
  1. a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.

  2. a person who imitates the work of others.


pasticheur British  
/ ˌpæstiːˈʃɜː /

noun

  1. a person who creates or performs pastiches

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Aside: As one might expect from a master pasticheur, the book itself is a loving simulacrum of classic mass-market paperbacks.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2021

It has long been fashionable to dismiss Williams as a mere pasticheur, who assembles scores from classical spare parts.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2016

In their pioneering biographical sketch of 1865, the Goncourt brothers set the fashion for dismissing Fragonard as a rococo pasticheur, gifted but aesthetically frivolous.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether you agree with Huysmans and call this mural painter a pasticheur of the Italian Primitives, or else the greatest artist in decoration since Paolo Veronese, depends much on your critical temperament.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

To this day opinion is divided as to his merits, he being called a pasticheur or else a great painter-poet.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James