bricolage
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bricolage.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bricolage (countable and uncountable, plural bricolages)
- (uncountable) Construction using whatever materials were available at the time.
- (countable) Something constructed with whatever materials were available at the time.
- (uncountable) A rhetorical style that brings together excerpts or samples of others' rhetoric in some constructive way (to produce, for example, synthesis, extension, or beauty).
- (countable) An instance of this rhetorical style's use, or a work produced with its use.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bricolage m (uncountable)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: bricolatge
- → English: bricolage
- → Portuguese: bricolagem
- → Spanish: bricolaje
Further reading
[edit]- “bricolage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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