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prettygoodwordmaquette (ma-KET) - n., a preliminary scale model of a sculpture or work of architecture.
A 3D sketch of sorts, or a mock-up. Borrowed around 1880, though not widely used until the turn of the century, from French, itself from Italian macchietta, little sketch, diminutive of macchia, sketch, complex of lines, from Latin macula, mesh, spot, from maculare to stain, to spot. So a maquette by etymology, if not by definition, cannot be immaculate.
---L.
A 3D sketch of sorts, or a mock-up. Borrowed around 1880, though not widely used until the turn of the century, from French, itself from Italian macchietta, little sketch, diminutive of macchia, sketch, complex of lines, from Latin macula, mesh, spot, from maculare to stain, to spot. So a maquette by etymology, if not by definition, cannot be immaculate.
---L.
