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noun
Construction using whatever materials were available at the time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Something constructed with whatever materials were available at the time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A rhetorical style that brings together excerpts or samples of others' rhetoric in some constructive way (to produce, for example, synthesis, extension, or beauty).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: collage, montage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: style, method, approach
noun
An instance of this rhetorical style's use, or a work produced with its use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: collage, montage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: work
History
Etymology tree French bricoler Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -age Middle French -age French -age French bricolagebor. English bricolage Borrowed from French bricolage.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
