different between pastiche vs appropriation

English

Etymology

Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pastá, “barley porridge”), from ?????? (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæs?ti??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

pastiche (countable and uncountable, plural pastiches)

1. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
2. A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
3. 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.

4. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

Translations

See also

• cento
• collage

Verb

pastiche (third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched)

1. To create or compose in a mixture of styles.

Anagrams

• capeshit, hepatics, pistache, scaphite

French

Etymology

From Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pastá, “barley porridge”), from ?????? (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas.ti?/
• Homophones: pastichent, pastiches

Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche

Verb

pastiche

1. inflection of pasticher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pasticho

Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

Spanish

Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??p?o?p?i?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

appropriation (countable and uncountable, plural appropriations)

1. An act or instance of appropriating.
2. That which is appropriated.
3. Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
4. (art) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
5. (sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
6. In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.
7. In constitutional law, the principle that supplies granted by parliament are only to be expended for particular objects specified by itself.

Translations

References

• appropriation at OneLook Dictionary Search
• appropriation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• appropriation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin appropri?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

appropriation f (plural appropriations)

1. appropriation

Related terms

• approprier

Further reading

• “appropriation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).