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‖ ébauche|eboʃ|
[Fr., sketch.]
1. Painting and Sculpture. A sketch, an outline drawing; a maquette, a rough-hewn version. Also fig., a first draft or attempt.
1722J. Richardson Statues in Italy 310 The Work is extremely Good; not highly Finish'd, but rather a sort of Ebauche. 1841J. S. Mill Let. Aug. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 483 Its deficiencies, as is usually the case with an ébauche, are chiefly in the introductory part. 1844― Ess. Pol. Econ. v. 126 As a mere anticipation or ébauche of a definition,..we do not quarrel with the received formula. 1873C. M. Yonge Pillars of House III. xxviii. 107 His sketch..the hastily-designed and partly-coloured ébauche. 1958Times 1 Feb. 8/5 A Deposition in our Sketch Club..would not have been out of place among the ébauches of..Tintoretto.
2. Horology. An unfinished watch movement, consisting of plates, bridges, etc.
1929G. H. Baillie Watches xii. 251 In England, the movement in grey consisted of an ébauche with train of wheels and pinions, all more or less in the rough. 1965Economist 18 Dec. 1348/1 These [Swiss] firms make their own ébauches (the top and bottom plates of the movement and the train of gears and pinions within). |