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‖ pasticcio|paˈstittʃo|
[It. pasticcio ‘any manner of pastie or pye’ (Florio), in med.L. pastīcium, deriv. of Com. Romanic pasta paste.]
A medley of various ingredients; a hotchpotch, farrago, jumble; spec. a. In the orig. It. sense, a pie containing numerous ingredients, of which macaroni and some form of meat are the chief constituents. b. An opera, cantata, or other composition, made up of various pieces from different authors or sources, a pot-pourri. c. A picture or design made up of fragments pieced together or copied with modification from an original, or in professed imitation of the style of another artist; also, the style of such a picture, etc.
[1706Art of Paint. (1744) 67 Those pictures that are neither originals nor copies, which the Italians call Pastici..because as the several things that season a pasty are reduc'd to one taste, so counterfeits that compose a pastici tend only to effect one truth.] 1752H. Walpole Lett. to Mann 1 Nov., Our operas begin to-morrow with a pasticcio, full of most of my favourite songs. 1785R. Cumberland Natural Son i. i. 7 What a pasticcio of gauzes, pins, and ribbons go to compound that multifarious thing, a well⁓dress'd woman. 1787P. Beckford Lett. Italy (1805) I. 7 My Letters will be a pasticcio, a mere hotch potch. 1880W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Music II. 668 Pasticcio... A species of Lyric Drama, composed of Airs, Duets, and other movements, selected from different Operas, and grouped together..in such a manner as to provide a mixed audience with the greatest possible number of favourite Airs in succession. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 11 May 349/2 His pasticcio, or remembrance, rather, of Ronsard, is fairly delightful. 1907Joyce Let. 18 Feb. (1966) II. 216, I have made a lovely pasticcio, it seems. 1923Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. 1326 Pasticcio Maccharóni. (Macaroni Pie). Ingredients.—3/4 of a lb. of cold beef or mutton, ½ an onion, 3 or 4 tomatoes, 1/4 of a lb. of macaroni, breadcrumbs, grated cheese, stock, salt, pepper, nutmeg. 1937M. Morphy Good Food from Italy 63 Pasticcio di maccheroni (Ferrara). 1967Listener 19 Jan. 107/1 The pasticcio, the medley of movements contributed by different composers. 1973Guardian 14 Apr. 5/4 Anyone at sea among unfamiliar Italian dishes would be well rewarded by going straight for such specialities as Pasticcio. 1973J. Wainwright Touch of Malice 63 Fernlea Autumn Fair..had ended up as a crummy, screaming pasticcio of brash lights and belching noise. 1974Listener 28 Feb. 282/3 Next year Handel supplied..Deborah, largely a pasticcio over which he took little trouble. 1976Survey Summer–Autumn 322 The contents turn out to be a pasticcio of themes rather tenuously connected. |