Look up: pastiche

1. Pastiche
   Literary work composed of material taken from various sources or written in the style of other poets/authors.
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2. pastiche
   [n] - a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
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3. Pastiche
   a design incorporating copies of styles, or in imitation of its neighbours. Generally used derogatively to describe a copy that doesn't work.
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4. pastiche
   noun a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
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5. pastiche
   (from the article `forgery`) In the composite fraud, or pastiche, the forger combines copies of various parts of another artist`s work to form a new composition and adds a few ...
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6. pastiche
   work patched together from excerpts of other writers, or from passages clearly recognizable as imitating others.
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7. pastiche
   pastiche (păstēsh', pä–) , work of art that combines themes and styles from various sources in such a way as to appear obviously derivative. Pastiches are frequently passed off as works by the artists from whom the motifs and figures were taken.
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8. pastiche
   In art and literature, a work that imitates another's style, or a medley composed of fragments from an original. The intention is normally homage, rather than ridicule (as in parody). In art, a pastiche is an image that borrows styles and elements of other pieces, but is not necessarily a direct copy. In The Waste Land (1922)...
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9. Pastiche
   A `pastiche` is a literary or other artistic genre that is a "hodge-podge" or an imitation. The word is also a linguistic term used to describe an early stage in the development of a pidgin language. Hodge-podge: In this usage, a work is called pastiche if it is cobbled together<...
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