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Definition of maquette noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

maquette

noun

/mæˈket/

/mæˈket/

(art)

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a small drawing or model that is used as the basis for a sculpture
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from Italian machietta, diminutive of macchia ‘spot’.

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