pastiche
English
editEtymology
editVia French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pasticcio.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpastiche (countable and uncountable, plural pastiches)
- A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
- Coordinate term: parody
- 2009, Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism:
- He argued that the failure of the future was constitutive of a postmodern cultural scene which, as he correctly prophesied, would become dominated by pastiche and revivalism.
- A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
- This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.
- The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.
- (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
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editVerb
editpastiche (third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched)
- To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
- 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times[1]:
- That the genetic code of the platypus proved to be as bizarrely pastiched as its anatomy enhanced the popular appeal of the report, published in the journal Nature.
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editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastis, which was borrowed through Occitan.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /pas.tiʃ/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: pastichent, pastiches
Noun
editpastiche m (plural pastiches)
Verb
editpastiche
- inflection of pasticher:
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “pastiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pas‧ti‧che
Noun
editpastiche m (plural pastiches)
- pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)
Spanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editpastiche m (plural pastiches)
- pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)
Further reading
edit- “pastiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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