écorché
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French écorché (“flayed”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /eɪkɔːˈʃeɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /eɪkoɹˈʃeɪ/
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.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.kɔʁ.ʃe/
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Participle
écorché (feminine écorchée, masculine plural écorchés, feminine plural écorchées)
- past participle of écorcher
Adjective
écorché (feminine écorchée, masculine plural écorchés, feminine plural écorchées)
Derived terms
Noun
écorché m (plural écorchés)
- écorché
Further reading
- “écorché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.