maquette

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maquette

  • /mæˈkɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

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Borrowed from French maquette.

noun maquettes

  1. A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture. 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.

verb maquettes · maquetting · maquetted

  1. ambitransitive, rare To prepare a maquette (of).

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noun a preliminary model or sketch

Españolmaqueta
DeutschMakette, Vorführmodell, Bozzetto
Italianobozzetto
Русскиймаке́т makét

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@misc{maquette_2026,
  title = {maquette},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/maquette},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}