kitsch
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noun
something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.
Origin:
1925–30; < German, derivative of kitschen to throw together (a work of art)
1925–30; < German, derivative of kitschen to throw together (a work of art)
Related forms
kitsch·y, adjective
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kitsch (kɪtʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a. tawdry, vulgarized, or pretentious art, literature, etc, usually with popular or sentimental appeal | |
| b. (as modifier): a kitsch plaster bust of Beethoven | |
| [C20: from German] | |
| 'kitschy | |
| —adj | |
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Kitsch
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Word Origin & History
kitsch
1926, from Ger., lit. "gaudy, trash," from dial. kitschen "to smear."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
kitsch [(kich)]Works of art and other objects (such as furniture) that are meant to look costly but actually are in poor taste.
Note: Kitsch in literature and music is associated with sentimentalism as well as bad taste.
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Slang Dictionary
kitsch definition[kɪtʃ]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Only if you enjoy pseudo-events and have a taste for phantasmagoric kitsch.
The lines between garish kitsch and substantive reality have been annihilated.
The lines separating carnival and culture, art and kitsch seem to have disappeared.
Yet academic chops and self-seriousness are also the hallmarks of kitsch.
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