Definitions
A work that imitates or combines other styles.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Imitative work”8 letters
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