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pasticcios

pasticcios is the plural of pasticcio.

Meaning of pasticcio

Noun

pasticcio (plural pasticcios or pasticci)

  1. A medley; an olio.
    • On our first entrance into the palace, which is a pasticcio of Saracenic, Conventual, and Grecian architecture, I was much taken with the principal front of the inner-court; a piece of as good Morisco work as any I had yet seen.1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776
  2. An artwork that directly imitates the work of another artist or artists.
  3. A falsified work of art, such as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.

Questions about pasticcios

What is pasticcios the plural of?
Pasticcios is the plural of pasticcio.

Words near pasticcios in the dictionary

  1. pasticceria
  2. pasticcerias
  3. pasticcerie
  4. pasticci
  5. pasticcio
  6. pasticcios
  7. pasticciotti
  8. pasticciotto
  9. pastiche
  10. pastiched
  11. pastiches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pasticcios (page history and authors); pasticcio (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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