How to pronounce maquette
American English pronunciation
ma-KET
- IPA
- /mæˈkɛt/
- Syllables
- ma · KET (2 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What maquette means
A small rough model a sculptor makes before the full statue
In a sentence: Before carving the giant lion, the sculptor shaped a clay maquette no bigger than a cat.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from French, which took it from an Italian word for a small sketch.
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