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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

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

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