écorché
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French écorché (“flayed”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
écorché (plural écorchés)
- (art) A figure drawn, painted or sculpted so as to show the muscles of the body without skin.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Apollo with a potato peeler, she flays the Marsyas of humanity, exposing raw nerve. Man is a red-ribboned écorché in her laboratory.
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
écorché (feminine écorchée, masculine plural écorchés, feminine plural écorchées)
Adjective[edit]
écorché (feminine écorchée, masculine plural écorchés, feminine plural écorchées)
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
écorché m (plural écorchés)
- écorché
Further reading[edit]
- “écorché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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