What does PASTICHE mean?

Definitions for PASTICHE
pæˈstiʃ, pɑ-pas·tiche

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. medley, potpourri, pastichenoun

    a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources

  2. pastichenoun

    a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work

Wiktionary

  1. pastichenoun

    A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.

  2. pastichenoun

    A musical medley, typically quoting other works.

  3. pastichenoun

    An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.

  4. pastichenoun

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

  5. pasticheverb

    To create or compose in a mixture of styles.

  6. Etymology: Via pastiche, from pasticcio, from *, from pasta, from παστά, from παστός.

ChatGPT

  1. pastiche

    A pastiche is a work of art, literature, music, or other creative processes that imitates the style or character of another work or works. It is often used as a form of tribute or homage to the original creator, but can also be used to critique or comment on the original. Pastiche can also refer to a hodgepodge or assortment of different elements or styles combined together.

Wikidata

  1. Pastiche

    A pastiche is a work of art, literature, film, music or architecture that closely imitates the work of a previous artist, usually distinguished from parody in the sense that it celebrates rather than mocks the work it imitates. In this sense, the first Star Wars film can be considered a pastiche of 1930s science fiction cliffhanger serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. In contrast to an allusion or a homage, a pastiche of this kind is not a passing reference, but instead covers a work in its entirety. Alternately, a pastiche may be a hodge-podge of parts derived from the original work of others. Once again, Star Wars offers an example: the music in the cantina scene references jazz bands in speakeasies from 1930s gangster movies, but in that same scene the crowd's indifference to sudden outbreaks of violence suggest the ambience of a saloon in a classic Western: Han Solo kills Greedo in a quick-draw gunfight.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pastiche

    pas-tēsh′, n. a mixture of many parts of different kinds, used of music, painting, &c.: a work in literature or art in direct imitation of another's style.—Also Pastic′cio. [It. pasticcio.]

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    Song lyrics by pastiche -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by pastiche on the Lyrics.com website.

Anagrams for PASTICHE »

  1. hepatics

  2. paschite

  3. pistache

  4. scaphite

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PASTICHE in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PASTICHE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of PASTICHE in a Sentence

  1. Anne Quito:

    The gist of the story was : Maybe we've graduated from so-called' chop-suey fonts,' which originated in the early 19th century right as a pastiche of an unknown land, now we've arrived at a very kind of globalized state. We know each other, we know the Chinese as traditional but also modern, we have a more nuanced view of the world. So perhaps we can retire these fonts. Or maybe we can use them in conjunction with other typefaces.

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