ébauche
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
ébauche (plural ébauches)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From early modern French esbauche (“the first form of a work of art, a proto-type”), deverbal of Middle French esbaucher (“to rough-hew, frame”), alteration (due to Middle French bauche (“beam, wooden crosspiece”)) of Old French esbosquier, esboskier (“to rough-hew beams”), from es- (“out”) + bosc (“wood, firewood”), from Frankish *busk (“wood, firewood”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“wood, thicket”). Cognate with Old French esbochier (“to prune grapes”), French bois (“wood”), bau (“crossbeam”). More at bush, balk.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ébauche f (plural ébauches)
- draft (early version of a written work)
Verb[edit]
ébauche
- inflection of ébaucher:
Further reading[edit]
- “ébauche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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