surmoulage

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noun

The fraudulent practice of taking a casting directly from a sculpture rather than from the artist's original.

OriginFrench surmoulage →
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Meanings

nounsurmoulage (countable and uncountable, plural surmoulages)

plural surmoulages

  1. countableuncountableartThe fraudulent practice of taking a casting directly from a sculpture rather than from the artist's original.

Origin

  1. Frenchsurmoulage
  2. Englishsurmoulage

Borrowed from French surmoulage.

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APA

surmoulage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surmoulage

MLA

“surmoulage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surmoulage. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “surmoulage,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surmoulage.

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