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pasticcio

Stage entertainment with music drawn from existing works by one or more composers and words written to fit the music. It was particularly popular in the 18th century.
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But as you are only a novelist, I compliment you heartily on your clever little pasticcio, adding, however, that as an account of what actually passed between myself and Hetty, it is the wildest romance ever penned.
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