écorché

See also: écorche and êcorche

English
Detail of an écorché (with mummification) of a horse and its rider made by the French anatomist Honoré Fragonard.

Etymology

Borrowed from French écorché (“flayed”).

Pronunciation

Noun

écorché (plural écorchés)

  1. (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)

  1. past participle of écorcher

Adjective

écorché (feminine écorchée, masculine plural écorchés, feminine plural écorchées)

  1. flayed, skinned
  2. hypersensitive

Derived terms

Noun

écorché m (plural écorchés)

  1. écorché

Further reading
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