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pastiche

See also: pastiché

English edit

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Etymology edit

Via 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 edit

  • IPA(key): /pæsˈtiːʃ/
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  • Rhymes: -iːʃ

Noun edit

pastiche (countable and uncountable, plural pastiches)

 
Botticelli's original on the left, pastiche on the right. (1)
  1. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
    • 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.
  2. A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
  3. 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.
  4. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

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Verb edit

pastiche (third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched)

  1. 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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Etymology edit

Borrowed 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.

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Noun edit

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

  1. pastiche

Verb edit

pastiche

  1. inflection of pasticher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Descendants edit

  • → Catalan: pastitx
  • → English: pastiche

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Pronunciation edit

 
 

  • Hyphenation: pas‧ti‧che

Noun edit

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

  1. pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

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Noun edit

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

  1. pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

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