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Preliminary model
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maquette
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"artist's preliminary model or sketch," 1903, from French maquette (18c.), from Italian macchietta "speck," diminutive of macchia "spot," from macchiare "to stain," from Latin maculare (see maculate ). From 1893 as a French word in English.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
''This article is about models of sculptures. For models of buildings see Architectural model . A maquette (French word for scale model , sometimes referred to by the Italian names plastico or modello ) is a small scale model or rough draft of an unfinished ...
Usage examples of maquette.
She looks at the velvet-draped boxes where they perch, at the clutter of bronze maquettes and camphorwood boxes and onyx eggs on the Queen Anne side tables and the family portraits dragged in from under the rafters and propped against the violently patterned wallpaper.
It was spread like a maquette, you know, with its neat greenwool trees and red-roofed houses over the valley floor and I think I have alluded earlier to its model school and temple and spacious rectangular blocks, some of which were, curiously enough, just unconventional pastures with a mule or a unicorn grazing in the young July morning mist.