Meanings
nounpochade (plural pochades)
plural pochades
- artA rough sketch.
This painting was very small, not even a study but a pochade — no more than a first idea jotted down in paint.
2008, Martin Gayford, The Yellow House, page 1161 more example
In despair, he finally painted a pochade of people leaving the church of Saint-François, in the village of the same name.
2004, David Karel, André Biéler: at the Crossroads of Canadian Painting, page 115
Origin
- Frenchpochade
- Englishpochade
From French pochade.
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pochade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pochade
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“pochade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pochade. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
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