Definitions for pasticcio

pasticcio pas·tic·cio

Spelling: [pa-stee-choh; Italian pahs-teet-chaw]
IPA: /pæˈsti tʃoʊ; Italian pɑsˈtit tʃɔ/

Pasticcio is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 320 anagrams from letters in pasticcio (acciiopst).

Definitions for pasticcio

noun

  1. a pastiche.

Origin of pasticcio

1700-10; Italian Vulgar Latin pastīcium pasty, pie, derivative of Late Latin pasta; see paste

Examples for pasticcio

His "Piramo e Tisbe" was a pasticcio,—an opera made up of tunes selected from his earlier works.

In the following year he produced 'Piramo e Tisbe,' a pasticcio, which failed completely.

pasticcio di Maccheroni is an excellent macaroni pie, and Gnocchi di Patele are little knobs of paste boiled like macaroni.

pasticcio signifies an imitation of the mixed style of various artists.

On one occasion an old man sang quite glibly a tune which was in reality a pasticcio of three separate shanties all known to me.

He introduced a discordant pathological note, but the music of Richard Strauss may save his pasticcio.

His masses were pasticcio work made up of pieces selected from his operas and other compositions.

A more repulsive tragi-comedy than this pasticcio of Sophocles and Seneca, can scarcely be imagined.

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