Meaning & use
Bricolage
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The construction or creation of something from a diverse range of materials or ideas that happen to be available, rather than from purpose-made components.
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The sculpture was a bricolage of scrap metal, driftwood, and broken glass.
Her essay style is a kind of intellectual bricolage, mixing philosophy, pop culture, and memoir.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from French, where 'bricoler' means to tinker or do odd jobs; anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss popularized the term in cultural analysis.
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