Definitions for pastiche

pastiche pas·tiche

Spelling: [pa-steesh, pah-]
IPA: /pæˈstiʃ, pɑ-/

Pastiche is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 495 anagrams from letters in pastiche (acehipst).

Definitions for pastiche

noun

  1. a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
  2. an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge.

Origin of pastiche

1700-10; French Italian pasticcio pasticcio

Examples for pastiche

He tentatively suggested that the text is a pastiche compiled by a modern forger with an elementary grasp of Coptic.

It is an interesting study to divide the pastiche from the real.

And what brought her to the top of this zeitgeist pyramid were her unrivaled skills in the post-modern art of pastiche.

I do not seek out the redundant, the pastiche, or the formulaic.

Her self-produced videos as Grant—a pastiche of nostalgic Americana imagery—were remarkably similar to that of “Video Games.”

Epstein is in every respect superior to the Serbian sculptor, in whose work there can be no question of anything but pastiche.

I believe that no more perfect example of pastiche exists in the language.

If it bear the distinct marks of being a Neo-platonic pastiche, we may reject it without hesitation.

Instead, we have irony, allusion, meta commentary, fragmentation, parody, and pastiche.

This poem is written as a folk-story, in the style of the Byliny, and it in no way resembles a pastiche.

Word Value for pastiche
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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