Etymology

bricoleur

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Today it means: A person who constructs bricolages; one who creates using whatever materials are available. Full definition →

French bricoleur
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  1. French · borrowed frombricoleur
  2. English todaybricoleur

From French bricoleur; apparently a borrowing from the work of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.

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