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Hommage vs Sommage - What's the difference?

hommage | sommage |

As nouns the difference between hommage and sommage

is that hommage is a homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist while sommage is pack animals.

hommage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=November 29, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=His Master's Vice, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=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.) }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Guido Cavalcanti, author=Maria Luisa Ardizzone, page=150, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=53XLa_9fq_sC&pg=PA150
    • , passage=It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 30, author=Anthony Tommasini, title=Doing Everything but Playing the Music, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once. }}

    See also

    * (Hommage)

    Anagrams

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    sommage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) pack animals.

    • References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989