pastiche

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.

• IPA^(key): /pæsˈtiːʃ/

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• Rhymes: -iːʃ

pastiche (countable and uncountable, plural pastiches)

1. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.

   Coordinate term: parody

   • 2009, Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism:

     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.

2. A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
3. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.

   This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.

   The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.

4. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

• cento
• collage

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^[1]:

     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

Borrowed from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastis, which was borrowed through Occitan.

• IPA^(key): /pas.tiʃ/

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• Homophones: pastichent, pastiches

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche

pastiche

1. inflection of pasticher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• → Catalan: pastitx
• → English: pastiche

• “pastiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pasticho

• Hyphenation: pas‧ti‧che

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

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

• IPA^(key): /pasˈtit͡ʃe/ [pasˈt̪i.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -itʃe
• Syllabification: pas‧ti‧che

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

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

• “pastiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024