bricolage

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  1. noun 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).

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  • Mr. Jalopy and Mark Frauenfelder (also of Boingboing. net) did manage to get the power and pleasureof resourcefulness / bricolage into the mix. —  RVABlogs
  • Madame's son, le Grand Mermoz, who runs the best bricolage emporium in town, is there, along with his wife, Jeanne, and a lovely Anglo-French couple from Limoges. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • The protest seemed a broad bricolage of causes: a young man waving a red flag allowed that we're not in a revolutionary situation yet, "but I think we might be soon"; three feet away, a woman holding one end of a banner ( "Capitalism isn't working") said she was furious with Gordon Brown for saddling her children with debt and may well vote for the Tories in the next election. —  The Nation: Top Stories
  • Chalk it up to poor marketing; imagine if the book had been sold instead as a postmodern literary bricolage. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Two small pieces of sculptural bricolage-more chicken wire, wood fragments, and industrial foam-stand atop pedestals.
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  1. French, from bricole, trifle, from Old French, catapult, from Old Italian briccola, of Germanic origin.
 

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