maquette

Borrowed from French maquette.

• IPA^(key): /mæˈkɛt/

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 […]

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).

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

• IPA^(key): /ma.kɛt/

maquette f (plural maquettes)

1. model, mock-up

• maquettiste

• “maquette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).