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Word of the Week: Bricolage

01.07.2007

bri?co?lage (bre'ko-läzh', brik'o-)

n. Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available

In A Sentence
"If you remember my introductory mail, I said I like bricolage (do-it-yourself) work.. well, this is still true, and to prove it, I bought just yesterday a mini multi-tool for grinding polishing and so on, as I needed something to try to renovate an "old” (ten years or so) ceramic money box I was given when I was a child.."

- Diego Petten?, "Cyanoacrylate", Flameeyes's Weblog, February 2, 2007

 

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