écorché
English
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Detail of an écorché (with mummification) of a horse and its rider made by the French anatomist Honoré Fragonard.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ekɔːˈʃeɪ/
Noun
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.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
Anagrams
- cochere
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ekɔʁʃe/
Verb
écorché m (feminine singular écorchée, masculine plural écorchés, feminine plural écorchées)
- past participle of écorcher
Adjective
écorché (feminine singular écorchée, masculine plural écorchés, feminine plural écorchées)
Further reading
- “écorché” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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