bricolage

Definitions

1. Construction using whatever materials were available at the time.
   uncountable
2. Something constructed with whatever materials were available at the time.
   countable
3. A rhetorical style that brings together excerpts or samples of others' rhetoric in some constructive way (to produce, for example, synthesis, extension, or beauty).
   uncountable
4. An instance of this rhetorical style's use, or a work produced with its use.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: collage, montage”

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