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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Étude

/(ā̇`tụd")/ · É·tude · IPA
01 n. A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.
  1. 1.
    A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.
  2. 2.
    A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.(Mus.)