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pasticheur

[pas-tee-shœr]

noun

French.

plural

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

  2. a person who imitates the work of others.



pasticheur

/ 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.

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The irony is that Tarantino himself might be the ultimate copycat artist, hailed and derided as a demented and irrepressible B-movie pasticheur who delights in excavating long-buried canons and subcanons of thrillers, westerns and exploitation movies.

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

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This night sees Sherwood playing host to comedians who also mix music with laughter, this week including guitar-assisted pasticheur Rob Deering and indie tale-teller Terry Saunders.

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

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