• Hommage

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /oʊˈmɒːʒ/

    Origin

    From French hommage.

    Full definition of hommage

    Noun

    hommage

    (plural hommages)
    1. A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.
      • 1991, November 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, His Master's Vice, There's a clip from his Pickup on South Street in Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and extended hommages to other Fuller films in Godard's Breathless and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.)
      • 2002, Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Guido Cavalcanti, It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido.
      • 2007, April 30, Anthony Tommasini, Doing Everything but Playing the Music, The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once.

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