bricolage.
Construction using whatever materials were available at the time.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
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