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plural maquettes
A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture. quotations examples
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
third-person singular simple present maquettes, present participle maquetting, simple past and past participle maquetted
(art, transitive, intransitive, rare) To prepare a maquette (of).