maquette
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French maquette.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
maquette (plural maquettes)
- A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
- 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
- His presence would be an affront to my body; so, for it, there would be the rare delight of extinguishing an imperfect and distressed version of itself, a prototype, a maquette.
- 2009, Joe Fig, Inside the Painter's Studio, page 51:
- And I thought, if I can imagine this place in real life, I can build it in the studio and then paint from the maquette as if it were a real landscape. In terms of process this was a breakthrough for me […]
Translations edit
A preliminary model or sketch
Verb edit
maquette (third-person singular simple present maquettes, present participle maquetting, simple past and past participle maquetted)
- (art, transitive, intransitive, rare) To prepare a maquette (of).
French edit
Etymology edit
From Italian macchietta (“speck, little spot”), diminutive of macchia (“spot”), ultimately from Latin macula (“spot, stain”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
maquette f (plural maquettes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: maqueta
- → English: maquette
- → German: Maquette, Makette
- → Greek: μακέτα (makéta)
- → Portuguese: maquete, maqueta
- → Romanian: machetă
- → Turkish: maket
Further reading edit
- “maquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.