pastiche

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Vancougar are perhaps best described as a pastiche of some of the greatest eras in lady-rock.

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  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).

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  • The author's fifth American-based pastiche, a sequel to “The Adventure of the Dancing Men,” saddles the Baker Street detective with an unlikely romantic involvement. —  ElleryQueen'sMysteryMagazine,February2003
  • In a pastiche, the characters and backgrounds of another writer are used in serious imitation of the style. —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • The relationship between The Riddle's modern day crime story and its presentation of a 19th-century literary pastiche is the riddle the viewer tries to tease out across the film's two-hour run. —  DVD Verdict
  • Vancougar are perhaps best described as a pastiche of some of the greatest eras in lady-rock. —  CHARTattack:News Feed
  • The book was written as a pastiche, in the tradition of the "Whole Earth Catalog" and as a paper-based placeholder for the Xanadu system that he believed would inevitably take hold. —  Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector
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  1. French, from Italian pasticcio; see pasticcio.

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  1. French
 

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