écorchén.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xl. 350 If you will have the kindness to look by the écorché, there, you will see that little packet which I have left for you.

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.

1891 T. Hardy Group of Noble Dames 85 Lifting her eyes as bidden she regarded this human remnant, this ecorché, a second time.

1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd ii. iv. 89 The contorted and attenuated écorché of the Continent appearing as in an earlier scene, but now obscure under the summer stars.

1963 Encycl. 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’.

1998 M. Warner No Go Bogeyman (2000) iv. 106 Paul Binski situates the dance of Death, as well as the skeletons and écorchés on tombs and other memento mori, within the long-range view of subjectivity that Christianity held out.