hommage
See also: Hommage
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French hommage.
Pronunciation
Noun
hommage (plural hommages)
- A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.
- 1991 November 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “His Master's Vice”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- There's a clip from his Pickup on South Street in Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and extended hommages to other Fuller films in Godard's Breathless and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.)
- 2002, Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Guido Cavalcanti, page 150:
- It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido.
- 2007 April 30, Anthony Tommasini, “Doing Everything but Playing the Music”, in New York Times[2]:
- The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once.
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French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French homage, hommage, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin hominaticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin homo (“a man, in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin a vassal”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hommage m (plural hommages)
- homage
- rendre hommage à
- pay homage to
- rendre hommage à
Further reading
- “hommage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
hommage
- Alternative form of homage
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