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