écorché

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

Meaning

Noun

A figure drawn, painted or sculpted so as to show the muscles of the body without skin.

Origin

Borrowed from French écorché ("flayed").

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