pastiche

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (4)  · 
“
But this pastiche is a homage to old-school musical traditions, gone but not forgotten.

View all »
Definitions (5)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun A dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent.
  2. noun A pasticcio of incongruous parts; a hodgepodge: "In . . . a city of splendid Victorian architecture . . . there is a rather pointless pastiche of Dickensian London down on the waterfront” (Economist).

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples

  • Pugmire's devotion to his sources transcends mere pastiche, and his style is neither overwrought nor too sparse. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • Of all the subgenres of Holmes pastiche, the most difficult to succeed at, and the rarest, is the short story that seeks to faithfully emulate Doyle. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • The author of this brilliant pastiche was born in the mid - twenties into the East Anglia depicted as background to "The Saliva Tree," where many farms still had their own little electricity generators. —  The Saliva Tree
  • But this pastiche is a homage to old-school musical traditions, gone but not forgotten. —  Ben and Alice
  • Less a spoof and more of a pastiche is the character of Professor Gamble, a renegade from the Avengers Annual #22. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

Tags

pastiche hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Pastiche has been looked up 406 times, favorited 3 times, listed 106 times, and commented on 4 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French, from Italian pasticcio; see pasticcio.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. French
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/pæsˈtiʃ/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a year.

Recent Lookups

esle · pulley · mooring · grandness · recognisable

Recent Favorites

metaplasm · emulous · abdicated · pique · mellifluous

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious