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Pat’s Word of the Day: Pastiche

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New Orleans’ unlikely mix of architecture, as seen from Chartres Street, is a kind of temporal pastiche. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

 

WRBH Volunteer and Resident Wordsmith Pat Ammon brings us a featured word of the day each Wednesday. Today’s word is…

Pastiche
/paˈstēSH,päˈstēSH/
noun:
a hodgepodge of incongruous parts.

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