Noun: pastiche
| Singular | pastiche |
| Plural | pastiches |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.
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The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.
Nouns inflected like pastiche
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: French Nouns '
pastiche', Italian Nouns '
pasticcio', Ancient Greek Nouns '
παστά'.