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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available: "Even the decor is a bricolage, a mix of this and that” ( Los Angeles Times).

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable Construction using whatever was available at the time.
  2. n. countable Something constructed using whatever was available at the time.

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from bricole, trifle, from Old French, catapult, from Old Italian briccola, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear "But Dionysiac themes were ever present in the pagen/Jewish culture in which Jesus' followers sought to interpret their leader's brief life and tortured death. There were forty years between Jesus' death and the first written account of his life—time enough for his followers to assemble a myth of his divine lineage and mission out of the cultural bricolage available to them, which already included the notion of a wine-bringing, life-giving, populist, victim god."
    —Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006), 64 Mar 12, 2009

  • kalidas definition: construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to hand; something constructed this way.
    see collage Jan 2, 2007

  • ecrivaine33 The Internet is a global bricolage, lashing together unthinkable complexities of miscellaneous computers with temporary lengths of phone line and fiber optic, bits of Ethernet cable and strings of code.
    -- Bernard Sharratt, "Only Connected", New York Times, December 17, 1995 Jan 2, 2007

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‘bricolage’ has been looked up 2871 times, loved by 10 people, added to 69 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 14.