pasticheur

[ pas-tee-shœr ]

noun

, French.

, plural pas·ti·cheurs [p, a, s-tee-, shœr].

1. a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
2. a person who imitates the work of others.

pasticheur

/ ˌpæstiːˈʃɜː /

noun

1. a person who creates or performs pastiches

Example Sentences

Aside: As one might expect from a master pasticheur, the book itself is a loving simulacrum of classic mass-market paperbacks.

From Washington Post

The irony is that Tarantino himself might be the ultimate copycat artist, hailed and derided as a demented and irrepressible B-movie pasticheur who delights in excavating long-buried canons and subcanons of thrillers, westerns and exploitation movies.

From Los Angeles Times

It has long been fashionable to dismiss Williams as a mere pasticheur, who assembles scores from classical spare parts.

From The New Yorker

This night sees Sherwood playing host to comedians who also mix music with laughter, this week including guitar-assisted pasticheur Rob Deering and indie tale-teller Terry Saunders.

From The Guardian

In their pioneering biographical sketch of 1865, the Goncourt brothers set the fashion for dismissing Fragonard as a rococo pasticheur, gifted but aesthetically frivolous.

From Time Magazine Archive