bricolage

Meanings

Plural: bricolages

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.