maquette
/mæˈkɛt/
maquette noun: a preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
Noun
maquette (plural maquettes)
- 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.1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun
- 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[…]2009, Joe Fig, Inside the Painter's Studio, page 51
Verb
maquette (third-person singular simple present maquettes, present participle maquetting, simple past and past participle maquetted)
- To prepare a maquette (of).
maquette meaning in Urdu and Indonesian
maquette in Urdu
- چھوٹا نمونہ
maquette in Indonesian
- a preliminary model or sketch
- maket
Forms of maquette
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | maquettes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | maquettes |
| present participle | maquetting |
| past participle | maquetted |
| past | maquetted |
Origin of maquette
Borrowed from French maquette.
Words that rhyme with maquette
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- upset
- vignette
- whet
- sett
- cornet
- let
- manchette
- roulette
- yet
- cadet
- cassette
- collarette
- forget
- pet
- banquette
- met
- mignonette
- musette
- octet
- reset
- unset
- abet
- beget
- brunette
- cuvette
- debt
- dinette
- dudette
- duet
- minuet
- navette
- planchette
- quartet
- regret
- silhouette
- vinaigrette
- aid and abet
- amourette
- barrette
- bavette
- bet
- brett
- briquette
- corvette
- couchette
- enucleate
- fossette
- grisette
Questions about maquette
- What does maquette mean?
- Maquette means a preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
- What is maquette in Urdu?
- Maquette in Urdu is چھوٹا نمونہ. See Maquette meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is maquette?
- Maquette can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce maquette?
- Maquette is pronounced /mæˈkɛt/.
- What is the plural of maquette?
- The plural of maquette is maquettes.
Words near maquette in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: maquette (page history and authors); maquette (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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