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Borrowed from French maquette.

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maquette (plural maquettes)

  1. 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 []

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maquette (third-person singular simple present maquettes, present participle maquetting, simple past and past participle maquetted)

  1. (art, transitive, intransitive, rare) To prepare a maquette (of).

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Etymology edit

From Italian macchietta (speck, little spot), diminutive of macchia (spot), ultimately from Latin macula (spot, stain).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ma.kɛt/
  • (file)

Noun edit

maquette f (plural maquettes)

  1. model, mock-up

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