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‖ écorché Painting and Sculpture.|ekɔrʃe| [Fr., pa. pple. of écorcher to flay.] A subject so treated as to expose the muscular system.
1854Thackeray Newcomes lxxviii, If you will have the kindness to look by the ecorché there, you will see that little packet which I have left for you. 1862Chamber's Encycl. III. 761/2 It is not uncommon to represent the ecorché in action, in the form of the Fighting Gladiator. 1883J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. 120/2. 1891 ‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin iv. v, Try to put the bones into this upper figure and make an écorché of the lower one. 1963Encycl. World Art VII. 662 One of the earliest examples is ascribed to Baccio Bandinelli and, because of its peculiar dancing movement, is usually called the ‘dancing écorché’. fig.1891Hardy Group of Noble Dames 85 Lifting her eyes as bidden she regarded this human remnant, this ecorché, a second time. But the sight was too much. 1908― Dynasts iii. ii. iv. 376 The contorted and attenuated écorché of the Continent appearing as in an earlier scene, but now obscure under the summer stars. |