4. (Music, other) music a part of the action of a clavichord consisting of a small piece of metal that strikes the string to produce a note. 5. on a tangent at a tangent on a completely different or divergent course, esp of thought: to go off at a tangent.
Synonyms: clichÃ©, bromide, platitude, truism. These nouns denote an expression or idea that has lost its originality or force through overuse: a short story weakened by clichÃ©s; the bromide that we are what we eat; a eulogy full of platitudes; a once-original thought that is now a truism.
What Is Pastiche? Pastiche is any form of art that deliberately copies the work of a different artist, a different style, or a different period. Pastiche is not parody or satire. Rather, it is a sincere homage to the style of the other artist or writer. Coming from the Italian, pasticchio, a kind of pie, a pastiche takes the ingredients of existing masterworks and recombines them in a new work.