bricolage \bree-koh-LAHZH\ - construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to hand; also : something constructed in this way
I'm too American. my first reading of this skimmed over the first mention of the French anthropologist and therefore misinterpreted the second mention as referring to the blue jeans magnate. I think I've encountered this word before, and might well have understood it from context.
kickshaw \KIK-shaw\ - 1. a fancy dish : delicacy 2. a showy trifle : trinket
I would have needed an awful lot of context to get this one.
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