ébauche

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See also: ebauche and ébauché

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French ébauche, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“wood, thicket”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /eɪˈbəʊʃ/, /eɪˈbɔːʃ/

Noun

ébauche (plural ébauches)

  1. A sketch.
  2. A maquette.
  3. The plates and bridges of an unfinished watch.

Further reading

French

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /e.boʃ/
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Noun

ébauche f (plural ébauches)

  1. draft (early version of a written work)

Verb

ébauche

  1. inflection of ébaucher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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