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pastiche

[pa-steesh, pah-] / pæˈstiʃ, pɑ- /


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“Wow. Well, I’ll take that every time,” Dulli responded, sharing that the inspiration for that song was Edwyn Collins’ 1994 modern soul pastiche, “A Girl Like You.”

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

The pastiche score, indebted to the pop charts of the 1950s, isn’t allowed to dominate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

He was the runner-up in 2022, armed with the cunning plan of writing a good song – the 70s glam rock pastiche Space Man – and being good at performing it.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

The postwar period is rife with big names who used brands as both a pastiche of and paean to America’s consumer culture: Richard Prince, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Eduardo Paolozzi and—king of them all—Andy Warhol.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

The last of these quotations is a pastiche, but the other two are real, and all are typical of the inward-looking style that makes academic writing so tedious.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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