pastiche /pæˈstiːʃ/noun 4verb 1forms 3 noun4 •A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.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 •A musical medley, typically quoting other works. •An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles. •A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form. verb1 •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 formspastiched · pastiching · pastiches
