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bricolage
Construction using whatever was available at the time.
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Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage, which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.
Something constructed using whatever was 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.