pastiche
/pæˈstiːʃ/
pastiche noun: a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
Noun
pastiche (countable and uncountable, plural pastiches)
- A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
- 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.2009, Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
- A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- 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.
- A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
Verb
pastiche (third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched)
- To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
- 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.2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times
pastiche meaning in Malayalam
pastiche in Malayalam
- blend, mixture, medley
- കൂട്ട്, മിശ്രിതം, ചേരുവ, കൂട്ടിക്കലർത്തിയത്, മിശ്രണം, യോഗം
- imitation, parody, take-off
- മിശ്രരചനാരീതി, അനുകരണം, പരിഹാസകാവ്യം, പരിഹാസകൃതി, ഹാസ്യാനുകരണം, ഹാസ്യവിഡംബനം
Forms of pastiche
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pastiches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pastiches |
| present participle | pastiching |
| past participle | pastiched |
| past | pastiched |
Origin of 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.
Words that rhyme with pastiche
Questions about pastiche
- What does pastiche mean?
- Pastiche means a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
- What is pastiche in Malayalam?
- Pastiche in Malayalam is കൂട്ട്, മിശ്രിതം, ചേരുവ. See Pastiche meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is pastiche?
- Pastiche can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pastiche?
- Pastiche is pronounced /pæˈstiːʃ/.
- What is the plural of pastiche?
- The plural of pastiche is pastiches.
Words near pastiche in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pastiche (page history and authors); pastiche (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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