Definitions for readymade
readymade
read·y·made
Spelling: [red-ee-meyd]
IPA: /ˈrɛd iˈmeɪd/
Readymade is a 9 letter English word.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 221 anagrams from letters in readymade (aaddeemry).
Definitions for readymade
noun
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an everyday manufactured object, as a bottle rack, a snow shovel, a urinal, or a comb, that may by the creative act of selection and designation by an artist attain status as a work of art: associated almost exclusively with the aesthetic activities of Marcel Duchamp during the period 1915 to 1917.
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readymade.
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something that is ready-made, as a garment or a piece of furniture or equipment.
adjective
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made in advance for sale to any purchaser, rather than to order:
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made for immediate use.
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unoriginal; conventional.
Origin of readymade
French English; term introduced by Duchamp in 1915
Examples for readymade
And that was devoted to what—readymade clothes, ski clothes, and that sort of thing?
It counts as a readymade, of sorts, because like Duchamp's famous urinal it transplants a functional object into the art world.
When a readymade definition, admirably rendered, is at your command, why be at the pains of making a new one for yourself?
Camp was pitched upon a knoll with plenty of pine trees so standing that natural tentpoles were readymade.