An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style. (This is a recent borrowing from French usage, and is often pronounced /oʊˈmɒːʒ/; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling.)
He likes to tell people that it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but that's kind of like saying Happy Gilmore is a homage to Woody Allen.
Homage is respect shown towards someone or something you admire, or to a person in authority. Palace has released two marvellous films that pay homage to our literary heritage. something you do to show respect for someone or something you think is important (hommage, from homme )
Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance
Hommage Ceremony by which a vassal pledged his fealty to his liege and acknowledged all other feudal obligations, in return for a grant of land
A ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself to be the vassal of another man by offering him fealty and military service in return for protection and the use of a fief
The act by which a vassal acknowledged his lord, promising fidelity to him and normally in return receiving lands and rights owned by the lord but used by the vassal For a time in the 1090s and 1100s popes sought to prohibit prelates from doing homage to lay rulers, just as they prohibited lay investiture