maquette
Speech parts
1. maquette - Noun
2. maquette - Verb
Meaning
maquette (plural maquettes)
A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
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).
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Examples
Glenna Goodacre's entry received an honorable mention in the contest and she was asked to submit a modified maquette (design model).
"It was his final artistic creation; the maquette was on the wall of his bedroom when he died in November of 1954", Rockefeller writes.
The maquette is described in his "Journal 1942–1945," in his entry for 12 February 1945: I saw the model of my set.