pastiche
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pastiche
- /pæˈstiːʃ/
Rhymes with -iːʃ
Where it comes from
Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pasticcio.
noun pastiches
- A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way. He argued that the failure of the future was constitutive of a postmodern cultural scene which, as he correctly prophesied, would become dominated by pastiche and revivalism.
- A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge. This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.
- A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
verb pastiches · pastiching · pastiched
- To create or compose in a mixture of styles. That the genetic code of the platypus proved to be as bizarrely pastiched as its anatomy enhanced the popular appeal of the report, published in the journal Nature.
Translations
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noun work that imitates the work of a previous artist
| Español | pastiche |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 파스티슈 paseutisyu |
| 日本語 | パスティーシュ pasutīshu |
| Português | pastiche, pasticho |
| Français | pastiche |
| Deutsch | Pastiche |
| Română | pastișă |
| Русский | стилиза́ция stilizácija, пасти́ш pastíš, имита́ция imitácija |
noun musical medley
| Português | pot-pourri |
|---|---|
| Français | pastiche |
| Deutsch | Potpourri |
| Русский | попурри́ popurrí |
Talk about this word "pastiche." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pastiche. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pastiche. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pastiche "pastiche." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pastiche.Cite this
@misc{pastiche_2026,
title = {pastiche},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pastiche},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
