Pastiche vs Motley - What's the difference?
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A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
(uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
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Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
Having many colours; variegated.
An incongruous mixture.
A jester's multicoloured clothes.
(by extension) A jester; a fool.
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Pastiche is a related term of motley.
As a verb pastiche
is .As an adjective motley is
comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.As a noun motley is
an incongruous mixture.pastiche
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(wikipedia pastiche)Noun
(en noun)Verb
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- Will you be married, motley ?
- Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view,