pastiche
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It opens as a pedal steel Nashville pastiche, a yarn about a disgruntled country-road petrol pump attendant who runs off with the day's take and a plan to 'head west' with his girl.
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- noun A dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent.
- 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).
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- 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
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It opens as a pedal steel Nashville pastiche, a yarn about a disgruntled country-road petrol pump attendant who runs off with the day's take and a plan to 'head west' with his girl.
— Brand New Day -
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]
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- French, from Italian pasticcio; see pasticcio.
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/ (pă-stēshˈ, pä-)/
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