ébauche

Meaning

Noun

draft (early version of a written work)

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person) inflection of ébaucher:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of ébaucher:

Concepts

draft

sketch

outline

stub

placeholder

beginning

nub

preform

procurator

proxy

rough sketch

schema

scheme

trace

rough outline

adumbrate

design

draught

drawing

frame

framework

manuscript

Synonyms

esquisse

brouillon

croquis

plan

début

étude

ossature

projet

schéma

structure

synopsis

trame

mandataire

proxy

marque substitutive

cadre

canevas

ébaucher

esquisser

Translations

abbozzo

Entwurf

taslak

esboço

Skizze

esbozo

esborrany

schets

schizzo

bosquejo

bozza

Angefangene

imbastitura

bozzetto

Pronounced as (IPA)

/e.boʃ/

Etymology

Cognate with French: esbauche

In summary

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.