Meanings
plural hommages
- countableuncountableA homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.
It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido.
2002, Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Guido Cavalcanti, page 1502 more examples
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.)
1991 November 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “His Master's Vice”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2016The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once.
2007 April 30, Anthony Tommasini, “Doing Everything but Playing the Music”, in New York Times
Origin
- Frenchhommage
- Englishhommage
From French hommage.
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