écorché

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  1. In painting and sculpture, a subject, man or animal, flayed or exhibited as deprived of its skin, so that the muscular system is exposed, for the purposes of study.

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  1. French, literally flayed, past participle of écorcher, Old French escorcher, flay, later ult. English scorch: see scorch.
 

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