maquette
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 8
/mæˈkɛt/
Definition of maquette
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
“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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noun
-
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.”
“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[…]”
verb
- (ambitransitive, rare)To prepare a maquette (of).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French maquette.
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