Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A usually small model of an intended work, such as a sculpture or piece of architecture.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The first sketch, in wax or clay, from which a work in sculpture is elaborated. Wax maquettes are often employed by painters in arranging compositions.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From French maquette. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Italian macchietta, sketch, diminutive of macchia, spot, from Latin macula. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This hand-painted cold-cast porcelain maquette of Owlman is based on art from the highly anticipated Warner Home Video made-for-DVD animated original movie, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths!”
DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
“Maquettes, for example, are models built to help explain an architectural or sculptural commission to people who are no good at understanding arm-waving and verbal explanation: [A maquette] is used to visualize and test shapes and ideas without incurring the cost and effort of producing a full scale product.”
“In addition to Sato's original painting, used as inspiration for the 1969 mosaic, the design team had access to a 31 / 2-foot-diameter glass mosaic "maquette" - or model - of”
“We make a scale model, called a maquette, of the piece we want to sculpt, and from that we create our final work.”
“The sculpting process is the same but the foundation of the character / puppet building process is the maquette, that is the beginning.”
“Scratch Fury limited-edition resin maquette, which is really neat-looking.”
“The Europeana 'maquette' was launched in February, showing how might work in a few years time.”
Notes from 'Museums and Europeana - the European Digital Library' at MCG's Spring Conference
“The artwork here has no competition from noisy monitors, and the only screens are those on two discreet pillars that permit visitors to examine more closely the "maquette," or preliminary booklet, that Jean made for the first Babar.”
“What I’m looking for in a maquette are the unexpected nuances of light and form, such as the cast shadows from the long teeth.”
“If they prefer they can begin by hand sculpting a maquette which is then scanned using a 3D laser scanner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘maquette’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
mabble, mabsoot, macadamize, macarism, macarize, macaronic, macerate, macerator, machair, machairodont, machicolation, machinule and 898 more...
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art & art historical
chiaroscuro, architrave, column, capital, corinthian, dorice, entablature, frieze, ionic, sketch, abecedarian, abstraction and 124 more...
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juv3nal's Words
ligature, hermeneutic, caduceus, prelapsarian, apophenia, pataphor, lipogram, epinephrine, ludic, samizdat, oulipo, oulipopo and 194 more...
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sep332's list
words I can't remember
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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words I remember first encountering
fetlock, artefact, quandary, asyndeton, chiasmus, enjambement, vehemently, vituperative, decorum, sable, scansion, diapason and 75 more...
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Miscellany, pt. m
mysticete, muisvoël, myography, myospasm, mereswine, melanagogue, misdeedy, malerisch, maquette, mise-en-page, miserabilism, mournival and 26 more...
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La Pirata's Words
haberdashery, splinter, swarthy, sophomoric, rugby, pirata, maquette, spindly, fortescue, spelunking, squall, scorned and 10 more...
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vari-ettes
ranchette, vinette, towelette, rosette, septette, silhouette, pirouette, roomette, roulette, omelette, majorette, gazette and 52 more...
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useful ones
ersatz, pastiche, amalgam, polemic, implacable, inchoate, tautology, grum, nonpareil, gracile, supernal, auspicious and 88 more...
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Les mots emprunté
sangfroid, frontispiece, abatis, abattoir, accoutrement, adroit, depliage, deracinate, deshabille, dirigisme, distrait, douceur and 52 more...
Tweets
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bilby "A bronze maquette (scale model) of the angel, created by the artist to help envisage the final work, appeared on the BBC's 'Antiques Roadshow' on November 16, 2008. It was given an estimated price of 1 million pounds, the highest valuation ever given to an item on the show."
- The Sunday Post (Scotland), 11 January 2009, with reference to the Angel Of The North sculpture. Jan 12, 2009