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pastiching

pastiching is the present participle and gerund of pastiche.

Meaning of pastiche

Verb

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.
    • 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

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Questions about pastiching

What is pastiching the present participle and gerund of?
Pastiching is the present participle and gerund of pastiche.

Words near pastiching in the dictionary

  1. pastiched
  2. pastiches
  3. pasticheur
  4. pasticheurs
  5. pastichey
  6. pastiching
  7. pastichio
  8. pastichios
  9. pastie
  10. pastier
  11. pastiera

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pastiching (page history and authors); pastiche (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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