pasticcio
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See also: pasticciò
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian pasticcio. Doublet of pastiche.
Noun[edit]
pasticcio (plural pasticcios)
- A medley; an olio.
- 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776
- On our first entrance into the palace, which is a pasticcio of Saracenic, Conventual, and Grecian architecture, I was much taken with the principal front of the inner-court; a piece of as good Morisco work as any I had yet seen.
- 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776
- (art) An artwork that directly imitates the work of another artist or artists.
- (art) A falsified work of art, such as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *pasticium (compare French pastis), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pasticcio m (plural pasticci)
- (cooking) pie, pasty
- (figuratively, often in the plural) mess, confusion
- essere nei pasticci ― to be in trouble
- (architecture) relief
- pastiche
- jam
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
pasticcio
Further reading[edit]
pasticcio on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Anagrams[edit]
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