bricolage
Meanings
noun
- Construction using whatever materials were available at the time.
- Something constructed with whatever materials were available at the time.
- A rhetorical style that brings together excerpts or samples of others' rhetoric in some constructive way (to produce, for example, synthesis, extension, or beauty).
- An instance of this rhetorical style's use, or a work produced with its use.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French bricolage.
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