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montage

/mɒnˈtɑːʒ/ noun

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  1. A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. The art or process of doing this.
  3. A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.

verb

  1. To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

Origin

, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]] Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).

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