pastiche

Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pæsˈtiːʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæsˈtiʃ/, /pæˈstiʃ/

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• Rhymes: -iːʃ

pastiche (plural pastiches)

Botticelli's original on the left, pastiche on the right. (1)

1. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
2. A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
3. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
4. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

pastiche (third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched)

1. To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
   • 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

• capeshit, hepatics, pistache, scaphite

• Homophones: pastichent, pastiches

pastiche

1. first-person singular present indicative of pasticher
2. third-person singular present indicative of pasticher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pasticher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pasticher
5. second-person singular imperative of pasticher

• pasticho

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)