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pastiche en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /pæˈstiːʃ/

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
   • 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. 2009, Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism:
2. (countable, uncountable) A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
3. (countable, uncountable) An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
   • The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.
   • This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.
4. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

Forms

Coordinates

parody

Relateds

cento · collage

Translations (34)

nl pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ja パスティーシュ (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ru попурри́ (musical medley) · da pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · fi pastissi (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · no pastisj (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · eo pastiĉo (musical medley) · cs pastiš (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ru имита́ция (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ca pastitx (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · de Potpourri (musical medley) · da potpourri (musical medley) · pt pot-pourri (musical medley) · ru смесь (incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge) · eo pastiĉo (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ca pastitx (incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge) · pl pastisz (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · pt pasticho (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · eo mikspoto (incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge) · pt pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ru мешани́на (incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge) · ru стилиза́ция (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · fi sekasotku (incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge) · tr pastiş (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · fr pastiche (musical medley) · es pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ru пасти́ш (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · nl mengelmoes (incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge) · fi potpuri (musical medley) · fr pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · sv pastisch (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ro pastișă (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · ko 파스티슈 (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) · de Pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

pastiche en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /pæˈstiːʃ/

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
   • 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. 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:

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